Re: Possible Idiot Question

[Golda Velez <gvelez@tucson.com>]

The .wgfilter-index file uses regular expression syntax, try

	Deny (^|/)users

with parenthesis instead of angle-brackets.  

Hope that helps.

--G

At 02:51 PM 10/14/99 -0700, John A. Lipski wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Let me start by saying that I'm not a programmer nor a UNIX guru; I am a
>graphic designer who does a lot of HTML, so pardon my ignorance here.  I am
>in the process of installing glimpse and webglimpse to allow searching on
>our web site (www.gps.caltech.edu). Glimpse is installed, and so is
>WebGlimpse, and confarc has been run and moved/created all the requisite
>files. However, I'm stuck at wgreindex. More specifically, I have whole
>branch of the directory tree that I don't want indexed (the "user"
>directories), so I tried to add a couple of "Deny" lines to .wgfilter-index
>to accomplish this. However, no matter what I try, I still get dozens of
>messages such as...
>
>find: cannot follow symbolic link ./users/bachmann/la.dsp.jpg: No such file
>or directory
>
>I told .wgfilter-index to "Deny <^>\./users" and "Deny <^|/>users" and a
>bunch of other similar "denies," but to no avail; I still get the "cannot
>follow..." messages.
>
>I think my biggest problem is that not having a background with UNIX and
>grep, I don't  really understand what all the "<^|/\.>" bits do, or how to
>formulate a "deny" that will effectively cut off the indexing (and
>searching) within the <web-site-root>/users directory. The man pages aren't
>terribly helpful; they explain a few of the wildcards, but not all, nor do
>they provide "real-world" examples.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Idiot John
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