Wondering How To Set Up Index Search?

In order to set up Index Search, follow the following steps:

• Get a copy of alisearch.pl program written in PERL, site-index.pl, and update-index. Before you click on them, turn on "Load To Local Disk" option from menu "Options".
• Store alisearch in your cgi-bin directory; site-index.pl and update-index wherever you want..
• Modify alisearch, site-index.pl and update-index according to your need. If you are not familiar with PERL, change only those lines which contain paths.
• Add index tags to your html files. For an example, try View Source from File menu of BYU CS homepage.
• If you want to see the effect of index tags, execute site-index.pl by typing update-index at the UNIX prompt.

Modification of alisearch

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# aliwebsimple: Simple ALIWEB search
# Version 2.1
# Date: Mon Apr  4 14:35:34 BST 1994
#
# By Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
# This code is placed in the public domain.
#
# *** Modified Tue Apr 5 1994 by Robert Thau, rst@ai.mit.edu
# *** for CGI compatibility.
#
# 2.1: separated documents into variables, converted to HTML+
#      separate searching for clarity
#      searcher can now be un-evalled by commenting out lines

($0 =~ /(.*)\/(.*)_search/);
$indexfile = $2;
$indexfilename = "/usr/users/www/html/" . $indexfile . ".idx";
$dialogfilename = "/usr/users/www/html/search_lib/" .  $indexfile . "-dialog";
$resultfilename = "/usr/users/www/html/search_lib/" .  $indexfile . "-result";
	

1. The first line, #!/usr/local/bin/perl should be matched with the path and name of your perl program.
2. The paths in the 19th - 21st lines should be matched with that of each, respectively.
3. Click for a dialog file and a result file example.

Modification of site-index.pl

#! /usr/local/bin/perl

# site-index.pl --- constructs IAFA templates for a Web site running
#                   NCSA httpd; puts them in DocumentRoot/site.idx
#
# version 0.2
#
# Copyright 1994 Robert S. Thau.  Unlimited distribution permitted so
# long as this notice is preserved.

# Configuration --- organization info.

$site_desc = 'Web server at the BYU Computer Science Department';
$site_keys = 'CS, Computer Science, BYU';

# Directory containing /conf and /logs subdirs; same as -d opt to httpd.
# This is NOT your DocumentRoot --- we get that out of srm.conf, just like
# the server does.

$server_dir = '/usr/users/www/www/httpd_1.1';  
	

1. The first line, #!/usr/local/bin/perl should be matched with the path and name of your perl program.
2. Change the contents of $site_desc and $site_keys for your need.
3. Change $server_dir = '/usr/users/www/www/httpd_1.1'; to the path of your httpd.

Modification of update-index

#!/bin/ksh
perl /usr/users/www/html/site-index.pl
cat /usr/users/www/html/organization.IAFA.info >> /usr/users/www/html/site.idx
cat /usr/users/www/html/site.idx >> /usr/users/www/html/local.idx

1. The first line, #!/bin/ksh is obvious. It should be matched with the path and name of your ksh program.
2. Change the paths of the rest of lines accroding to your setup.