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Perl Studio for Windows 95/98/2000/NT
Perl Studio psSiteSearch
- Perl Studio psSiteSearch is a set of Perl scripts that:
Creates a searchable keyword index of the html pages on your web site.
Easy admin for adding, updating, deleting the information in your database.
Set the types of files to index.
Set the directories not to search.
MySQL version
These scripts are included with the Perl Studio member subscription.
Perl Studio psSiteSearch demo:
Installing Perl Studio psSiteSearch scripts , DBI::SQL version
Unzip the site_search.zip archive file on your local hard drive.
Change the first line of the scripts to point to the correct path for perl version 5 or greater on your server.
The default perl path in the scripts is #!/usr/local/bin/perl
other possible paths to perl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5
- psSiteSearch script files
- cgi-bin/search.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_admin.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_params.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_import.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_index.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_lib.cgi
- cgi-bin/search_admin.cgi
(note: The script files params.cgi and search_lib.cgi do not need a perl path tag.)
Upload all the script files into your cgi-bin directory.Create a 'template' directory under your public_html directory.
Upload the search_print.html and search_template.html into the template directory. The search_print.html file is used to print database records by the admin script.
Modify the search_template.html file to reflect your web site design. Edit the form action tag to point to the search.cgi script file on your server.
The search template displays the search results by replacing the hidden html tag with the search results returned by the search.cgi script file.
Hidden html tag: <!--insert_search_results_here-->
Copy and paste the form search contents in the search.html file into one of your html files to allow vistors to your site to seach your site. Edit the form action tag to point to the search.cgi script file on your server.
Next, make sure the files and directories have the correct permissions. Script file permissions should be 755.
User Modifications
The following lines from the params.cgi file define the location of important files and database parameters. These lines must be modified before running the scripts:
Required Modifications that need to be set before you use the site search scripts
Access to your DBI::SQL Database will require that you supply your userid and password
$dbuser = 'your user id';
$dbpass = 'your password';
Access to your DBI::SQL Database will require that you supply the name of your database,
usually the same as your userid
$dbname = 'your database name';
The name of the database driver your using. It can be mysql or any DBI:DBD driver
$dbdriver = 'mysql';
The URL to the database server, usually localhost, if the database server is on the same machine.
$dbserver = 'localhost';
Edit the $root_dir variable that the search_index.cgi script file starts the keyword index search in.
$root_dir = "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}";
Edit the $rootURL variable that the search_index.cgi script file uses to apprend to the list of files that are returned by the search_index.cgi script file.
$rootURL = "http://$ENV{HTTP_HOST}";
Edit the @file_types array variable to reflect the types of files the search_index.cgi script file should search.
@file_types = qw(htm html shtml );
Edit the @dont_search_dir array variable, to reflect the directories that are not searched by the search_index.cgi script file.
@dont_search_dir = qw(cgi-bin demo admin members images templates database export tmp);
First run the search_create.cgi script to create your new site search database table.
You can now load the Perl Studio search_admin script and run the Make Index function to create your keyword index of your site.
Load http://yourserver/cgi-bin/search_admin.cgi (replace 'yourserver' with your own server name) in your browser and make sure it functions correctly.
