Enterprise Search Server: Fess
Overview
Fess is very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platforms, which have Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under Apache license.
Fess is Elasticsearch based search server, but knowledge/experience about Elasticsearch is NOT needed because of All-in-One Enterprise Search Server. Fess provides Administration GUI to configure the system on your browser. Fess also contains a crawler, which can crawl documents on Web/FileSystem/DB and supports many file formats, such as MS Office, pdf and zip.
Web Sites
Issues/Questions
Please file an issue. (Japanese forum is here.)
Getting Started
Download
Fess 10.0 rc1 is available. The release page is HERE.
Install/Run Fess
$ unzip fess-10.0.x.zip
$ cd fess-10.0.x
$ ./bin/fess
For the details, see Installation Guide.
Access Fess
- Search UI: http://localhost:8080/
- Admin UI: http://localhost:8080/admin/ (username/password is admin/admin)
You can register crawling targets on Web/File System/Data Store of admin pages, and then start Crawler on Scheduler page manually.
Development Information
Get Source Code
First of all, clone Fess's repositories:
$ cd ~/workspace
$ git clone https://github.com/codelibs/fess.git
and then imports it as Maven project on eclipse or ohter IDE.
Setup for Elasticsearch Plugins
Run antrun:run to download plugins into plugins directory:
$ mvn antrun:run
Run Fess
Run or debug org.codelibs.fess.FessBoot on IDE, and then access http://localhost:8080/fess/
Build Package
Run package goal and then the release file is created in target/releases.
$ mvn package
Generate Source Code
$ mvn dbflute:download # (one time command)
$ mvn dbflute:freegen
$ mvn license:format