Getting Started with vspider

Here is a simple step by step description of using vspider to create collections for searching using Verity in CF. To be filed in the category of "stuff I blog so I won't have to Google it again".

If the instructions don't work for you, check out the troubleshooting posting and its associated comments.

Start by creating a batch file for creating/updating the index. Here's a sample project.bat:

(it should all be on one line)

Then go into the cf admin and add a collection with the same name (project) making sure NOT to add the project name to the directory path (so directory path might be C:\CFusionMX7\verity\collections). Choose Englishx as the language and add the collection.

You should then see the collection appear with the correct number of documents and size. You may have to restart the search service before or after the step in the admin and then you should be able to cfsearch against the collection.

Note that for this to work, you need to be able to set up a directory under localhost for spidering the site (it's a licensing issue) so your site must be capable of displaying in a subdirectory.