Documentation
SITE SEARCH PRO
System Requirements
- Perl 5
- MYSQL
- Telnet
- Must be able to run cgi outside of cgi-bin
Preliminaries
- Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web
server host. Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.
Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4. Ask your
administrator if you are not sure.
- Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a
program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download
WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the TAR archive you
will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop. Now you have to do some
basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them). Use a text editor
such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files. These
are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as
word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.
Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".
This is normal.
Preparing the CGI scripts
Define Path To PERL 5
The first step is to open up each and every
file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script. Each of the
cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is
installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first
line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If the path to perl 5 on your web server is
different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect
the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do
not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.
Configure the .cgi files
configure.cgi
Set variables inside of configure.cgi like so
- $rooturl="/full/path/to/root/spidering/directory/";
- $subdir =
"/full/path/to/public_html";
- $headerhtml =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/sitesearchpro/header.html";
- $footerhtml =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/sitesearchpro/footer.html";
- $webpagelist="/full/path/to/sites.txt";
- $spiderfile = "sites.txt";
- $mysqldatabase = "mysql database
name";
- $mysqlusername = "mysql user
name";
- $mysqlpassword = "mysql password";
- $searchresultsperpage = 5;
- $outputdescriptionlength = 350;
- $pointsfortitlematch = 10;
- $pointsformetadescriptionmatch = 10;
- $pointsformetakeywordsmatch = 10;
$rooturl is full path to the
directory your spidering starts (usually this will be your root html dir)
$subdir is the same as $rooturl
without the ending backslash
$headerhtml is full path to
header.html
$footerhtml is full path to
footer.html
$webpagelist is full path to
sites.txt
$spiderfile is just called sites.txt
(do not change)
$mysqldatabasename,$mysqlusername,$mysqlpassword
- pretty obvious
$searchresultsperpage is the # of
results you want returned per query
$outputdescriptionlength is the
length of each search result 350 characters is pretty good
$pointsfortitlematch effects search
engine ranking - more points if keyword is in title the higher it ranks
$pointsformetadescriptionmatch
effects search engine ranking - more points if keyword is in metadescription the higher it
ranks
$pointsformetakeywordsmatch effects
search engine ranking - more points if keyword is in metakeywords the higher it ranks
Upload Your Edited CGI and Database Files
- Create directory inside cgi-bin called
sitesearchpro and upload all files, chmod everything to 755 that ends in .cgi, and
everything else to 666 or 777.
- Create your mysqldatabase and upload the .sql
file
- Upload a copy of sites.txt into the root
directory you want your search engine to begin spidering (usually your root html dir)
- Upload a copy of configure.cgi and spider.cgi
in this same directory
- Run spider.cgi by telnet until it finishes
- Open the sites.txt file and remove any files
you do NOT want to appear in the search engine
- Do a search and replace in sites.txt - replace
"//" with "/"
- Upload this edited sites.txt file into
/cgi-bin/sitesearchpro and run upload.cgi to create your database
- Make sure index.html points to
/cgi-bin/sitesearchpro/search.cgi
- Edit the footer.html and header.html files to
customize your header and footer output if desired
Editing the search engine
- If you accidentally get files in your search
engine you do NOT want either delete the files from sites.txt, delete and restore the .sql
file and restart upload.cgi or login to mysql and delete manually.
Updating the search engine
- To update the search engine data simply run
upload.cgi to replace the data with current data.
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