spam: the other white meat

I saw this lovely in NYC this weekend. As if I didn’t think that anything was immune from commodification, the fact that this is a vans add is amazing.

This is largely a note to self so I don’t forget how to do this in the future. Given that we want to use debian packages where ever possible, it is important to use one install with multiple configuration files. The problem is that htdig has really crappy documentation when it comes to this.

You’d think you could just tell it to use a directory in the conf file and htdig would be happy to accept that. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

template_map:Long long /PATH/htdig/templates/long.html \
Short short /PATH/htdig/templates/short.html
$template_name: long

here, it makes sense to make PATH a variable so that it’s easy to configure. What this part of the configuration doesn’t do however, is setup all the other templates. Which is easy to do, but hard to find out that you need to do it

search_results_header: /PATH/htdig/templates/header.html
search_results_footer: /PATH/htdig/templates/footer.html
search_results_wrapper: /PATH/htdig/templates/wrapper.html
nothing_found_file: /PATH/htdig/templates/nomatch.html
syntax_error_file: /PATH/htdig/templates/synerror.html