Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 16, Using Search 407
Indexing Your Documents
Creating a New Collection
You can create a collection that indexes the content of all or some of the files in
a directory. You can define collections that contain only one kind of file or you
can create a collection of documents in various formats that are automatically
converted to HTML during indexing. When you define a multiple format
collection (with the auto-convert option), the indexer first converts the
documents into HTML and then indexes the contents of the HTML documents.
The converted HTML documents are put into the
html_doc
directory in the
server’s search collections folder.
You can only have 12 collections on your server, which is limited to 10 user-
defined collections for any server that uses web publishing. If you want to use
a 13th collection, you must remove one of your existing collections (choose
Search and click the Maintain Collection link). Do not remove the web
publishing collection if one exists for your server.
You can only have entries for a maximum of 16 million documents in your
collections. A document that is indexed in multiple collections counts as
multiple documents. It is best to create new collections of over 10,000
documents at low-traffic times, or the indexing operation may affect your
system’s performance.
Note
You need to have at least 3MB of available disk space on your system to create
a collection. For information on how you can restrict the size of the index files,
see “Restricting Your Index File Size” on page 402.
To create a new collection:
1.
From the Enterprise Server, choose Search.
2.
Click the New Collection link.
The Create a Collection window appears. The Directory to Index field
displays the currently defined document directory and provides a drop-
down list of all the additional document directories defined for the server.
For more information about additional document directories, see “Mapping
URLs” on page 393.
3.
You can select any of the items in the drop-down list as a starting point for
finding the directory you want to index.