Question

Many of our users search our TWiki installation using google. We have TWiki access control setup in many webs such that TWikiGuest can not view topics. Therefore search robots can not access the web.

Does anyone know how to allow goole to process a protected web but keeping the results within the confines of the groups of users that have access

Environment

-- PeterJones - 10 Oct 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

You cannot do this with the public google engine. You must use a dedicated search engine, able to manage "credentials" such as ... the Google Search Appliance http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/ or http://www.exalead.com/ . I did not try the open source search engines able to manage protected pages, but you may want to look at http://www.simplexo.com/ (or look at: http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools-opensource.html)

The other way is to use "native" TWiki integration with search engines: look at: SearchEngineKinoSearchAddOn

-- ColasNahaboo - 10 Oct 2008