Endeca CAS : How to create new CAS Crawl and verify it?

New application created and even after provision Endeca Index is failing to find the Crawl. Try below steps:

1) Make sure CAS password is correct in below file
     /opt/app/endeca/apps/CRS/config/cas/last-mile-crawl.xml

2) Create new CAS crawl with updated details
/opt/app/endeca/CAS/11.1.0/bin> cas-cmd.sh createCrawls -f /opt/app/endeca/apps/CRS/config/cas/last-mile-crawl.xml

3)  Verify the crawler by running the below script
/opt/app/endeca/CAS/11.1.0/bin> cas-cmd.sh listCrawls

SEO Best Practices : How to Block false bots or Hackers IP?

Using IP based filtering will catch out rogue bots masquerading as major bots. Also, you can use reverse DNS lookup and compare the names of bots approaching. 

ATG Commerce has a pipeline servlet that handles the blocking of requests from certain IP addresses.
 
/atg/dynamo/servlet/pipeline/BlockIPServlet 
# set to false to disable
enabled=true
# IP Lists
blockedIPs=152.52.91.12,\
143.13.65.1

Endeca Dimension Boost and Bury : Ordering Dimensions, Dimension Values and Dimension Group

Dimensions are attributes of your data that are used for navigation and searching. Each dimension has one or more dimension values.

       
       Ordering of dimensions 

By default, Endeca applications display dimensions, dimension values, and dimension groups in an order that is specified by the technical team.

Workbench User can override the default ordering of dimensions, dimension values, and dimension groups (including reordering dimensions and dimension values within dimension groups) in Endeca Workbench. 

How to Change the order using Endeca Workbench - Experience Manager? 

 

Discover Site Before and after changes:

Ignore character accents when indexing text - Endeca Record Search Best Practice

How to ignore character accents when indexing text? 
By Default café is indexed separately from cafe. 
Setting --diacritic-folding flag at Dgidx will index café as cafe and setting it at Dgraph level makes search matches with either term (Cafe or café).

How to configure at both Dgidx and Dgraph level?

Dgidx:
Using the --diacritic-folding flag on Dgidx causes accented characters to be mapped to simple ASCII equivalents.

Dgraphs:  
Using the --diacritic-folding flag on the Dgraph allows Anglicized search queries such as cafe to match against result text containing international characters (accented) such as café.