Server CGI Support

for search

This search gateway will perform simple searching capabilities on your website. This page will explain how to get the simple search program working on your website.

  1. How do I install this script for my Web?
  2. Where do the files get installed to?
  3. What must I do after I have installed the script?
  4. Can I specify Which directories or files to search?

How do I install this script for use on my Website?

You will need to install this script from your console, located at http://yourdomain.xxx/console

What must I do after I have installed the script?

You will need to make some minor changes to the search.cgi script in your /cgi-bin/search directory.

$baseurl is exactly what it sounds like, the base url you want to perform the search on.  This should be set to your domain name.

$baseurl = 'http://YOURDOMAIN.com';

@files is an array containing the directories and or files you wish to search, for instance if you would like to search a directory called iqs in your htdocs directory it would look like the example below.

@files = ('iqs/');

$title should be your domain name

$title = "Your Domain Name";

$title_url  This should be the URL address of your domain, most likely the same as the $baseurl

$title_url = 'http://YOURDOMAIN.com';

$search_url This should point back to the page you performed the search from.

$search_url = 'http://YOURDOMAIN.com/search/search.html'

Can I specify Which directories or files to search?

Yes you can specify which files or directories to search in the @files array variable like this:

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

this would search for all files ending in .shtml inall directories and for all .html files in demos/links and demos/guest

Where do the files get installed to?

The script itself gets installed to /htdocs/cgi-bin/msasearch

The page to perform the search from gets installed into /htdocs

Here's some HTML code that you can copy and paste into your site to provide a search.

Here's what the above HTML code will look like when pasted into your page.

If you have problems setting up this program, please send email to help@webstorage.com with the following info:

  1. Your account name (or domain name)
  2. The page in your account that contains the broken search.

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