The first thing you need is the search.zip. This will unpack into a search.pl that you should be placed in your scripts directory, and a search.html - this should be placed in your normal web space, as well as the all important README file.

Configuring the Search Script

The below should be configured in the script using a UNIX compatible editor ie PFE. See the README file for more details.

$basedir = '/home/pub/www/www.mydomain.com/';

This is the full path to your home directory or a sub directory of your home directory that you wish to search - if you are on ws1 the www.mydomain.com will be replaced by your directory name - on ws2 - 4 it will be your domain name. Take a look at the secure server pages to find out which server you are on.

$baseurl = 'http://www.mydomain.com/';

This is the base url that corresponds with the above path - it could be your domain, or a domain plus a directory.

@files = ('*.html','demos/links/*.html','demos/guest/*.html');

This is a list of directories and files you want to search, */ will search all sub directories */*/ will search all sub directories of those directories *.shtml will search all shtml files in the current directory etc.

$title = "My Web Site";

The title of the material that you are searching

$title_url = 'http://www.mydomain.com/';

The url of the page that you want to link back to from the search page - will be given the above title

$search_url = 'http://www.mydomain.com/search/search.html';

The url of the search page itself.