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David Richards wrote:

> In article <356271C5.F397F250@kc-primary.net>,
> Gary Gorman  <ggorman@kc-primary.net> wrote:
> >Is it possible to configure apache to automatically index web pages from
> >a database, that is, without user intervention?
> ...
> Personally I like the 'swish' index program, but the main site for it has
> vanished. If you're running Apache on Unix, then you might want to look at
> 'Harvest'.

An enhanced, free, backwards-compatible version of SWISH is available:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/

It was easy for me to schedule regular search engine updates when I started
using SWISH about two years ago.