The underlying ElasticSearch seems to be a very mighty search engine. Is it possible to use CirrusSearch for recursive indexing of an archive on a local disk without importing every file in the wiki?
In my case there is a huge collection of PDFs that i want to be found by keyword searching. May be by automaticaly generated UNC links or something like that.
Unfortunately CirrusSearch is designed to index mediawiki it cannot be used to index documents present on the filesystem. I'd suggest looking at other tools that are designed for this task, e.g. fscrawler.
Thank you. Is it possible to run CirrusSearch and FSCrawler on the same instance of ElasticSearch sharing results?
Re-using the same elasticsearch cluster is certainly possible but using FSCrawler generated index to populate Mediawiki Search results won't be possible out of the box. The only way to use mediawiki to search these files will be to import them I'm afraid.
