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Recoll

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool based on Xapian. By itself Recoll does not offer web or API access, this can be achieved using recoll-webui

Configuration

You must configure the following settings:

base_url:

Location where recoll-webui can be reached.

mount_prefix:

Location where the file hierarchy is mounted on your local filesystem.

dl_prefix:

Location where the file hierarchy as indexed by recoll can be reached.

search_dir:

Part of the indexed file hierarchy to be search, if empty the full domain is searched.

Example

Scenario:

  1. Recoll indexes a local filesystem mounted in /export/documents/reference,
  2. the Recoll search inteface can be reached at https://recoll.example.org/ and
  3. the contents of this filesystem can be reached though https://download.example.org/reference
base_url: https://recoll.example.org/
mount_prefix: /export/documents
dl_prefix: https://download.example.org
search_dir: ''