By ichibby on

Has anyone integrated the Google Mini with Drupal ?

We have a private Drupal extranet site and are tyring to hook up a Google Mini Search Appliance (GSA). We are not allowing annonymous users permission to access content. But, the GSA requires Basic Authentication to access the site, so we have now added the Secure Site module to support Basic HTTP-AUTH authentication. The GSA is configured to access the site and to send the username:password credentials, but we are getting 401 authentication errorcodes on the GSA. When we review the Drupal log files and the times when the GSA is hitting the site, we can see that the user is Anonymous (and thus denied access). When we access the site via a browser, it pops up the basic authenticate dialogue box (which should work for the GSA).

What is the best way to integrate Drupal with the Google Mini?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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Tweeks_tx’s picture

Tweeks_tx commented

Did you ever find a solution, or even a work around for this?

I too am using a drupal intra-portal, and am wanting to tie our google-mini into it. For now.. I just stick it in an IFRAME on the FRONT-PAGE so that people that hit the sight.. see the google-mini search first. But that kind of sucks... we want to see a drupal module that can wrap the google-mini searches and keep the results within the drupal site (so they don't go off and just hit the google-mini directly). Kind of like the google "CSE Search Box" thing.. but with the mini, and within drupal natively.

Tweeks

gengel’s picture

gengel commented

If this is still needed, I'm working on a solution for this with a client now. When the module's complete, I'll let you know.

Also might want to look at HTTP authentication module rather than securesite

kyutbabe’s picture

kyutbabe commented

my company also wanted to have our site, which is made using drupal, to be integrated with google mini.

gengel’s picture

gengel commented

This ended up being private - sorry.

What are you trying to do specifically?

kyutbabe’s picture

kyutbabe commented

Hi! My company wants to integrate Google Mini for the search of it's site that is being developed using Drupal version 6.x. I was hoping there would be a module available that I can easily plugin. Do you know any?

gengel’s picture

gengel commented

Unfortunately, no, I don't know of any. But I haven't revisited the problem in quite a while.

For a better Drupal search experience, I might suggest http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

rsaddington’s picture

rsaddington commented

Might be worth looking at: http://drupal.org/project/google_appliance