mod_spotlight_apple

Posted on June 1, 2005 by schwa

Mac OS X 10.4 Server includes an Apache module called “mod_spotlight_apple”. This module allows (obviously enough) searching your webserver via spotlight. More information is available here:

http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Web_Technologies_Admin_v10.4.pdf

The gist of it enabling it is:

Enable mod_spotlight_apple using the Web section of the Server Admin tool. Then browse http://<yourserver>/.spotlight to see the rather primitive search screen.

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Of course based on the above screenshot you can see I’m having trouble getting mod_spotlight_apple to find anything…

Update: As pointed out in the comments to this post Apple has posted an article on how to set up mod_spotlight_apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302424

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  • We succeeded to get results by enabling indexing on the volume containing the virtual host document root and telling Spotlight to import that directory.
    These are the commands:

    sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/<your name="name" volume="volume">

    mdimport -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/example-vhost/</your>
  • Riz
    This showed up in my RSS box today and for some reason I remembered this post as I was having similar issues.

    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302424

    Spotlight finds stuff on my server drives now.
  • Swing by my site at http://g-whiz.blogspot.com/ you'll get an idea of where else and how else to proceed. It works. OH MAN! does it work.
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