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0 Find and install development files for:
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g++ >= 3.2 - http://gcc.gnu.org/
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zlib - http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
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mimelib (kdenetwork) - ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/src
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xsltproc (libxslt1) - http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
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If you need to, lurker can be built using only g++ 2.95, however 3.2+ is
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recommended as the resulting binaries are much smaller and faster.
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If you do not want kdenetwork, you can also download mimelib separately
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from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8168 and tell
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lurker to compile it and statically link to it.
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xsltproc is not strictly required for lurker. It is not used during compile
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and is only used if your lurker.conf references it. However, it is the
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preferred method for rendering html, so we recommend installing it.
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For debian: apt-get install xsltproc libmimelib1-dev g++ zlib1g-dev
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1 [flags] ./configure [options]
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To control the mimelib location, setting these options may help:
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--with-mimelib-local Use internal lurker/mimelib/*
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--with-mimelib-include=DIR Location of mimelib/message.h
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--with-mimelib-libname=LIB Try an alternative library name
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To control the zlib location, setting these options may help:
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--with-zlib-include=DIR Location of zlib.h
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--with-zlib-libname=LIB Try an alternative library name
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To control the environment, variants of these flags may help:
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CPPFLAGS="-I/sw/include -DDW_UNIX"
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3 make install (as root if you don't have permission)
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You may want to strip the binaries as they can be quite large.
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This will install these files:
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/usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/*.cgi
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- The CGIs which power lurker
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- These must be placed such that the webserver can run them
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/usr/local/var/www/lurker/*
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- The lurker content which must be web accessible
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- The subdirectories "attach, list, mbox, message, mindex,
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search, splash, and thread" must all be writeable by
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whatever user executes lurker.cgi
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/usr/local/bin/lurker-*
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- Command-line utilities for importing email, cleaning
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cached web files, and interfacing with shell scripts
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/usr/local/var/lib/lurker/*
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- The lurker database directory where mail is imported to
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- The directory and its contents must be writeable by the
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user who runs lurker-index
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- This must be readable by the user who runs lurker.cgi
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You must install the file /usr/local/etc/lurker.conf by hand.
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Then customize it using the provided lurker.conf as a starting point.
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4 Setup delivery of new mail to lurker-index
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* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-japanese@lists.debian.org>.*
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| lurker-index -c /etc/lurker.conf -l japanese -m
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5 Feed archived mail through lurker-index.
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lurker-index -c /etc/lurker.conf -l devel -b 5 < debian-devel.mbox
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Keep in mind these points:
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a. Lurker imports benefit primarily from a fast CPU and fast RAM.
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Lurker rendering of pages benefits from more RAM (for disk cache).
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b. The lurker database will consume space on the order of 40% of the
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mailboxes it indexes. You must keep the mbox lurker creates,
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although the original mbox is not required after lurker-index.
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c. Nearly all of the processing time lurker spends is on importing
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messages. Once you have indexed your archive, lurker no longer needs
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6 Setup a cronjob to update the archive every 15 minutes
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0,15,30,45 * * * * lurker-prune -c /etc/lurker.conf -d /path/to/www/lurker
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This must be run with the ability to read and delete files from the
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web-server cache directory.
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7 Configure your webserver.
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You must make certain that .xsl and .xml files have type text/xml.
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For email reply support .rfc822 must have type message/rfc822.
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You must set the default charset to UTF-8 for these files.
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You must make lurker your 404 error handler or another way of creating
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missing cache files (eg: apache's RewriteRule).
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You must pass the config file and lurker's document root to lurker.cgi
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as ? delimited arguments in QUERY_STRING 'cfgfile?docdir'. The docdir
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is relative to the location of lurker.cgi and cfgfile is relative to
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NOTE: The docdir here is the location of lurker.docroot.
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This has nothing at all to do with your webservers document root.
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Typically this is /usr/local/var/www/lurker or /var/www/lurker.
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If you run apache with a directory structure like:
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then .htaccess should contain:
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AddType text/xml .xsl
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AddType text/xml .xml
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AddType message/rfc822 .rfc822
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AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
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ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/lurker.cgi?../lurker.conf?../htdocs
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or, using the Rewite Engine (avoids 404 log messages):
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AddType text/xml .xsl
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AddType text/xml .xml
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AddType message/rfc822 .rfc822
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AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
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RewriteRule (attach|list|mbox|message|mindex|search|splash|thread)/ /cgi-bin/lurker.cgi?../lurker/lurker.conf?../htdocs [T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L,PT]
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8 point your browser at the url where lurker is installed
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