Installing, Configuring & Upgrading
Installing mnoGoSearch for Windows
Extract setup.exe file from the zip archive you downloaded with your favorite unzipper, e.g. WinZip, into temporary directory.
Run setup.exe to start installation process and follow on-screen instructions.
Supported databases
mnoGoSearch Lite utilizes a built-in database, you don't need any additional database software to run it.
mnoGoSearch Pro uses a SQL database to store its data. The list of the databases mnoGoSearch Pro is know to work with currently includes:
- Access 2000
- Cache 5
- Firebird 1.5
- Mimer 9.x
- MS SQL 2000
- MS SQL 7.0
- MySQL 4.x
- Oracle 9i
- Oracle 8i
- PostgreSQL 8.x
- PostgreSQL 7.x
Configure SQL database
Install SQL database software supported by mnoGoSearch. There are free SQL databases available, please feel free to try any of them, e.g. MySQL.
Create database to store indexer information. See documentation specific to database software you use.
Install ODBC drivers for your database. See documentation specific to database software you use.
Create DSN by going to ODBC control panel. Note that you must create SYSTEM ODBC in order mnoGoSearch function correctly.
Configure mnoGoSearch Lite
Configuration of the Lite version is the same as that of the SQL version, excluding the issues relating to SQL database and ODBC, since mnoGoSearch Lite stores indexer information in a built-in database.
Upgrade from mnoGoSearch 3.1.x
Indexer configuration file and search template file formats, as well as database format, are incompatible between 3.1 and 3.2 mnoGoSearch versions. If you're upgrading from mnoGoSearch 3.1, you have to remove old configuration files, and then configure Indexer and search from the beginning. In Pro version, you have also to recreate SQL tables. mnoGoSearch 3.2 is more powerfull. It provides some new features like phrase search and cached copy. In order to be be able to do it, mnoGoSearch 3.2 store more data about the documents. Thus, a database created by an older mnoGoSearch version is not reusable in version 3.2. You have to reindex your site from the beginning. Before installing mnoGoSearch 3.2 we recommend to uninstall a previous version of mnoGoSearch, if you have one, and remove all old configuration files and search templates.
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