This "conf" directory contains example swish-e configuration settings. In the "stopwords" directory are files that contain lists of common stopwords for a few languages. They can be selected with the IgnoreWords configuration directive. See SWISH-CONFIG.pod for more information. Configuration examples: Note: In many cases you may not need a configurataion file at all when indexing with swish. The configuration defaults should get you started. The configuration defaults can also be set when compiling swish-e by adjusting the settings in config.h. For example, you can index a directory (and sub directories) simply by calling swish as: swish-e -i . In general, though, you will use a config file to specify the configuration parameters to use while indexing: swish-e -c mysettings.config If you are having problems indexing some files, you can specify a single file on the command line which will override the IndexDir configuration setting in your config file: swish-e -c mysettings.config -i test.html -f other.index which will index with your settings, but only index one file, and write the index to the file specified with the -f option. The files included here are examples. It is recommended that you create your own configuration file as needed, only adding additional directives when you need to change the default behavior. If you are generating a number of indexes, then consider moving common configuration directives into a single file, and then including that configuration file in other configuration files. See the IncludeConfig directive in the SWISH-CONFIG.pod manual page. Examples: example1.config - index only html files, plus add labels to the index file example2.config - include metanames in your index example3.config - add descriptive tags to your index example4.config - site-wide settings example5.config - Using "FileRules" to control what gets indexed example6.config - spider using "prog" feature example7.config - spider using the "http" method of indexing example8.config - using "filters" to convert PDF files. example9.config - using the "prog" method for filtering example9.pl