To index your entire DocumentRoot, run the following command as root: ${PREFIX}/bin/omindex --db /var/omega/data/default --url / /var/www/htdocs/ If you're running a chroot'ed apache you need to put all libraries required by /var/www/cgi-bin/omega in the chroot. Then fire up your browser and go to the following url to do a search: http:///cgi-bin/omega