Posts tagged ‘kn’
Spent most of the day today getting the KN moved from the old server to our new web cluster and database servers. Took a little while to do, especially as after the database was moved all the files needed to be reindexed, but the site seems much much quicker now so I’m very pleased with that. It also means we’ve got rid of the eWebEditPro inline html editor and are now using the FCKEditor instead.
Been a bit slack over the last 2 or 3 weeks getting anything posted up here, as I’ve been away for a few days and most of the work I’ve been doing probably isn’t that interesting to anyone else! I’ve spent a fair bit of time moving a lot of our web and database services over to our new cluster system and getting all of that tested out. I’ve been updating some of the code within the Knowledge Network to make it a bit easier to move. The KN was previously using the eWebEditPro inline html editor, a we’ve had that a fair while now (about 5 years), but we’ve now decided to switch to using the FCKEditor as it seems to be getting a lot of use and seems pretty good (and it’s open source & free!). We’ve been using the FCKEditor on one of our other sites and have had no issues with it- that was using v2 RC3, so I’ve now got it all upgraded to use the most recent version (v2.2). The only slightly fiddly bit was getting the image upload to work exactly how I wanted it, as we’ve got the images on another server to the web cluster, so I had to play around with the security settings.
The other couple of things I’ve done with the KN is finally got it searching PDF documents properly, we’re using SQL Server full text indexing, so inserting the actual files into the database for indexing, so we can also search and filter the results easily (which we couldn’t do with a file system search). Installing the Adobe IFilter for indexing was all a bit of a doddle really!
Finally, the last thing I did was update the external site search. We were previously using Swish to index other sites we wanted to offer search results from, but this of course meant building and maintaining our our indexes of these sites, so I’ve switched over to using the OU’s own search engine to get these results.
All this seems to be working well (so far!)
