LXR Tips

This page will contain tips for better using LXR. Contribution is welcome. Contact the LXR administrator if you want to add a tip.

• Configuring LXR for the Linux kernel One of the most challenging tasks to get full power from LXR!
• Configuring LXR for the GNU GRUB2 boot loader Easier than Linux kernel, but needs some attention.
• Reconstructing LXR databases After full system upgrade or new release installation, you were left with reconfiguring your LXR server. You can now automatically rebuild all the databases if you saved your lxr.conf.
• Upgrading LXR databases schema From time to time, developers need to modify the database structure to cope with new features. In some cases, these modifications can be applied to existing databases without losing their contents.
• Running LXR without free-text search engines If you just want to test LXR or do not need the free-text search feature, here is a small tip that spares you the trouble of installing an engine.
• Fixing 500 Internal Server Error without reconfiguration Correct LXR configuration without reconfiguring your trees nor reindexing them.
• Ubuntu specifics Web server under Ubuntu defaults to different configuration settings than under other distributions.
• CentOS installation A step-by-step guide contributed by kernelony.
• Downloading a file A procedure to download a file from an LXR site.