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File Configuration

Overview

The File Crawling configuration page allows you to manage settings for crawling files in the file system or shared folders on the network.

Management Operations

Display Configurations

To open the list page for File Crawling settings, click on “[Crawler > File System]” in the left menu.

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To edit, click on the setting name.

Create Configuration

To open the File Crawling configuration page, click on the “Create New” button.

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Configurations

Name

The name of the setting.

Paths

Specifies the starting location for crawling (e.g., file:/ or smb://).

Included Paths For Crawling

Paths that match the specified regular expression (Java format) in this field will be crawled by the Fess crawler.

Excluded Paths For Crawling

Paths that match the specified regular expression (Java format) in this field will not be crawled by the Fess crawler.

Included Paths For Indexing

Paths that match the specified regular expression (Java format) in this field will be included in the search.

Excluded Paths For Indexing

Paths that match the specified regular expression (Java format) in this field will be excluded from the search.

Config Parameters

You can specify the crawling configuration information.

Depth

Specifies the depth of the file system structure to crawl.

Max Access Count

Specifies the number of paths to index.

The number of Thread

Specifies the number of threads to use for this setting.

Interval time

Specifies the wait time for threads to crawl paths.

Boost

The boost value represents the priority of documents indexed by this setting.

Permissions

Specifies the permissions for this setting. To display search results to users belonging to the developer group, specify {group}developer. User-level specification is {user}username, role-level specification is {role}rolename, and group-level specification is {group}groupname.

Virtual Hosts

Specifies the hostname of the virtual host. For more information, refer to the Virtual Host section of the Configuration Guide.

Status

When this setting is enabled, the default crawler job will include this setting in the crawl.

Description

You can enter a description.

Delete Configuration

Click on the setting name on the list page, and then click the delete button to display the confirmation screen. Clicking the delete button will remove the setting.

Example

Crawling Local File System

If you want to crawl files under /home/share, the settings would be as follows:

Name Value
Name Share Directory
Paths file:/home/share

Other parameters can be left as default.

Crawling Windows Shared Folder

If you want to crawl files under \SERVERSharedFolder, the configuration should be as follows:

Name Value
Name Shared Folder
Path smb://SERVER/SharedFolder/

If username and password are required to access the shared folder, you need to create file authentication settings from the [Crawler > File Authentication] section in the left menu. The configuration will be as follows:

Name Value
Hostname SERVER
Scheme SAMBA
Username (Enter your username)
Password (Enter your password)