[Perlfect-search] Different config files for staging / production servers (was: RE: perlfect-search digest, Vol 1 #463 - 2 msgs)

[Morten Wulff]

On Mon, 5 May 2003 19:28:01 +0530, Maninder, Singh <mandiv@corp.untd.com> 
wrote:

> I am indexing my site on my development server where the $INSTALL_DIR is
> different from $INSTALL_DIR on my production servers?
> In that case how do I deal with this change in the conf variable.
>
> I do not want to carry out the indexing on my prod servers.

I had the exact same problem.

I solved it by using two config-files: conf.pl is used for the production 
server and conf_local.pl is used for the staging server. I changed 
indexer.pl to use conf_local.pl instead of conf.pl (line 56 in version 1.74 
of indexer.pl).


hth,

wulff


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