Confluence 2.8 : Setup Confluence To Index External Sites
This page last changed on Apr 15, 2008 by smaddox.
Confluence Indexing External SitesConfluence cannot easily index external sites due to technical reasons, but there are two alternatives: Technical ReasonsConfluence indexes pages using a customised Lucene search engine that returns matching pages, mail and blog posts for which the searcher has view permission. It would require significant source code modifications to enable Confluence to process search results from external pages, as the indexing process has been customised to utilise internal Confluence metadata. Note that users can still index content from new attachment filetypes. Embed External Pages Into ConfluenceIf you only have a small number of external sites to index, you may prefer to enable the HTML-include Macro and use it embed the external content inside normal Confluence pages. Replace Confluence SearchUse your own programmer resources to replace Confluence's internal search with a crawler that indexes both Confluence and external sites. This advanced option is easier than modifying the internal search engine. It requires removing Confluence internal search from all pages and replacing the internal results page with your own crawler front-end.
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