Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Configuring Text Search
Collection-specific configuration actions:
• define URL mappings for the document directories to be indexed
• define the pattern files to display for searches on a particular collection
Configurations that affect all collections:
• establish access control for files and directories
• define any words you want dropped from the search
• define the search parameters
• turn the search function off and on
• restrict the amount of memory available for indexing operations
Controlling Search Access
The search function accesses the ACL database that is the default for your
server. You can restrict access to the documents and directories on your server
by defining explicit access control (ACL) rules or you can rely on the default
access control definitions. You can add users to your server’s access control
database through the Administration Server’s Users & Groups function. For
more information about setting access control, see Chapter 14, “Controlling
Access to Your Server”.
You can set your server to check access permissions before displaying search
results (by choosing Search and clicking the Search link) as described in
“Configuring the Search Parameters” on page 396. When this option is set,
before returning the results of a search query, the server checks a user’s access
privileges and challenges the user to identify themselves before displaying any
results.
Mapping URLs
When users search through a collection’s files, the documents that are returned
as search results use a partial URL (
Uniform Resource Identifier ), to identify
them. This is a security feature that prevents users from knowing the complete
physical pathname for a file. A URI is set up by mapping a URL to an additional
document directory.