debiman-idx2rwmap

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Overview

idx2rwmap converts an auxserver index into a file that can be used as an Apache RewriteMap. The resulting file contains all possible URLs under which manpages can be reached. For a 30MB auxserver index, the resulting rwmap is 1.6GB.

The -concurrency option determines how many shards are created in -output_dir. To sort and combine the individual shards, use:

LC_ALL=C sort output.* > /srv/man/rwmap.txt

Usually, the resulting file is then converted to DBM so that Apache can quickly look up keys:

httxt2dbm -i /srv/man/rwmap.txt -o /srv/man/rwmap.dbm