Haystack Static Pages is an extension library for Haystack. Currently, it adds the ability to index static pages through the use of a settings.py variable and command extension.
Setup and install Haystack.
Add
haystack_static_pages
to yourINSTALLED_APPS
insettings.py
Add
HAYSTACK_STATIC_PAGES
to yoursettings.py
.eg.
HAYSTACK\_STATIC\_PAGES = ( 'static-about_us', # A named url 'static-help', # Another named url 'http://www.example.com/some_page.html', # An fully qualified url )
./manage.py syncdb
to create the necessary tables../manage.py crawl_static_pages
to populate the database with the static page content. This is needed for Haystack to properly map the urls to the content. Output should indicate which pages were crawled and where, as well as the total number of pages found. Crawled pages must be accessible through an http connection. ie., they must be viewable in a browser../manage.py rebuild_index
to create the search indexes used by Haystack. You should see a note about how many static pages were indexed. The number of static pages indexed should match the number of static pages created in the step above.
There are currently two command line options that can be used with the crawl_static_pages command:
-l LANG, --language=LANG | |
This allows the user to specify the desired language
for indexing content. Each page will include a
language attribute that will correspond to the
page's language as detected in the html lang attribute
or 'en' if unable to be determined. | |
-p PORT, --port=PORT | |
This allows the user to include the port number to crawl, if required. |