How to host a search engine?

Question

PHP

Hello, I'm going to do one project and now the question arose about how to run a search engine on a hosting and is it possible? After all, the same elasticsearch is a java application

Answer 1

perhaps, if hosted on a VPS, buy a VPS (2-5 dollars per month), install, connect with "just hosting"
but there are other options for search engines, for example, this one , or full-text search in the database, etc.

Answer 2

What do you want to hear?)) ElasticSearch / Lucene / Sphinx / Solr ... do not exist in an abstract vacuum and are basically useless without the ability to install them. How to do this - read the official documentation.

Answer 3

if you need to search the server for files the way the client sees them, then look for a search engine in php,
and if you need to climb the file system, you can search the site search script in php
, or maybe you just need a console one find?

Answer 4

phpMorphy