Introduction
Use the Searching section of the Spy-Server
configuration screen
to do these jobs:
Once you have made any changes, click on the Make Changes button to effect
the change.
To remove a value for a field, replace the existing value with a space and press
Make Changes.
Partial screenshot of the online configuration screen Searching section:
Current search database details
Spy-Server can search one or more search databases.
The top of the Searching section lists the search database counts,
followed by parameters used in all searches.
Index description
Default target window
Rules file for word stemming and Synonyms
The Searching section then:
- lists all the current search databases
Click on each search database filename to view its details, reload, change or remove it.
- provides an option to add another search database.
See the Indexing page for full details
of Spy-Server search database filenames and directories.
Set the index description
The Index Description is displayed by default in the heading of each page
produced by Spy-Server. The index description is initially picked up from
the description of the first search database you make. If you do not like this, then you can set
a permanent override by entering your preferred text in the
Index Description box and press Make Changes.
Incidentally, you can also change an individual search database's description
by setting an indexing run Advanced option
Description=...new description...
Specify the default browser window target
If HTML frames are used on a web site, it is important that any Spy-Server
result is displayed in the correct frame pane. The indexers detect any use
of frames and store the pane name as the "target" for each page.
The default target is _self which is a special name that indicates
that the hit should be shown in the current browser pane.
If you want to specify a default target pane then enter this in the
Default target box and press Make Changes.
Note that the default target will not override the target for a page
stored in the search database, so the default target will only be used
in the case where there is no target specified.
There are various other special pane target names that you might want to use:
_blank opens a new browser window
_top shows the result in the whole of the current browser screen
_parent shows the result in the parent frame
Change the rules used by Spy-Server for word stemming and synonyms
See the Rules file page
for details of how Spy-Server uses a rules file to
do word stemming and synonyms. These features make
it more likely to find results for users' searches.
If you want to change or remove the rules file, enter the URL
in the Rules file box and press Make Changes.
Now check that the rules are working OK.
Add to or change the search database list
The Searching section initially shows a summary list
of all the search databases that it is searching.
- To add a search database to the list, select a database from the drop-down list and click
Add search database. The search database must already exist - make one using an Indexing Run
in the Indexing section.
- Click on a search database filename to display its details.
To return to the summary, click on the small green button.
The details of each search database are displayed, along with configuration parameters:
- Additional Base URL
- Whether the search database is included in the default search
- Highlighting page
The details also state if there are regular indexing runs that rebuild this search database.
Reloading the current search database
Press the Reload search database button to reload the current search database.
In most cases this is not necessary because the current search database will be reloaded
automatically when an indexing run completes. However if you have just uploaded
a new search database created by Spy-CD-Wizard, then you will need to press
Reload search database to use the new search database.
Change the search database
To change the search database, select a different filename in the
Search database box and press Make Changes.
Confirm that the new search database details are shown correctly.
Also review the Index description
and change it if necessary.
See the Indexing page for full details
of Spy-Server search database filenames and directories.
Specify any additional Base URLs
When Spy-Server or Spy-CD-Wizard indexes a site to create a search database,
it stores a basic filename for each page URL. If there is a common initial host name
for a site, then this is stored as a Base URL. If the Base URL is
http://www.phdcc.com/ and the filename is spy-server/index.html
then the page displayed when the user clicks on a hit in a results sheet will be
http://www.phdcc.com/spy-server/index.html.
Search databases created by Spy-Server usually have the site host name as
the Base URL. However, those created by Spy-CD-Wizard will usually have an
empty Base URL. If you need to specify a Base URL for this case, then put the
new Base URL into the Additional Base URL box and press Make Changes.
Note that the Additional Base URL will not override the Base URLs that are contained
within the search database. However it will be used if there is no Base URL in the
search database.
Include in default search
If the Included in search box is checked, then Spy-Server includes this
search database in default searches.
You can set up searches where the user is provided with a list of the available
search databases, with check boxes letting the user choose which ones to include
in the search.
See the Subsets page for full details.
Enable word highlighting by specifying the highlighting page
See the Word highlighting page
for details of how to set up word highlighting for Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4 or later in Windows.
Once you have put the necessary word highlighting files on your server,
enter the URL to the highlighting page in the Highlighting page
box and press Make Changes.
Now check that highlighting works OK.
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