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Configuring Text Search
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documents into HTML as it indexes them so that you can use your web browser
to view the documents that are found for your search. For more information,
see “About Collections” on page 403.
Users can search through server documents for a specific word or attribute
value, obtaining a set of search results that list all documents that match the
query. They can then select a document from the list to browse it in its entirety.
This provides easy access to server content.
As the server administrator, you can restrict which users and groups are
authorized to use text search and which documents they can access, you can
modify the configuration files that govern how text search operates, and you
can customize the search query and results pages.
To enable searching capability on your server, you begin by identifying the
special configuration needs of your server and using the several search
configuration windows to input these. Then you need to identify the directory
or directories of documents that you want prepared for searching and index the
document information into a searchable database, called a
collection . The next
several sections discuss the details of configuring search and indexing
collections.
Note
Search cannot work if the web publishing collection (
web_htm
) does not yet
exist or has been deleted. If search does not work, restart the server with the
web publishing function turned on (the default), and try searching again.
Note
If Search is turned on before Web Publishing then the default collection is not
created until after a force index is performed. This happens only if Web
Publishing is enabled after Search. The reason that the Web Publishing
collection does not show up in search is that at the time the search init is run,
the
web_htm
collection has not been created. If you restart the server, then it
will show up correctly.
Configuring Text Search
You can configure several aspects of the search function for your specific
server, some of which are collection-specific and others apply across all
collections during a search. Collection-specific configuring affects how
documents are indexed into a particular collection, so you must define these
before creating the collection. Other configuring actions can be defined at any
time because they only affect the searches themselves.