Simple Site Search
By CGI Magic

A Search script that can be run on your web site. It is very easy to set up, and provides the ability to control the files and directories that can be viewed. You can also "ban" printout of sensitive directories or files.
This script will search in real time, does not make a index of your web pages to search through, will search the actual pages. Can be very slow on large site but great for smaller sites.

You can call the main Perl search script - search.cgi - from as many individual keyword search input forms as you wish, placed anywhere on your site, and each input form can tailor the list of files and directories that will be searched.

This is the same script we use on our Windows 95 Tips pages.

Editing the search.cgi

$root_web_path = "/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/Your_Domain";
$root_web_path is the server path to the beginning of the directory tree that you want to search. Your searches all start in this directory

$server_url = "http://www.Your_Domain.com";
$server_url is the actual url for this site, and will be prepended to hits to create a hypertext reference.

$search_script = "search.cgi";
$search_script exists to allow you to change the name reference   of the search script, so that, for instance, the script could be encapsulated in a .bat file.

$banned_files = "_vti_cnf/|images/|text";
$banned_files is a list of any files/directories that must NEVER be accessible, whatever the settings in the html input file. This prevents someone from making a mirror version of the html input form and submitting it with a blank unwanted_files list, in order to view all the files on the site. Also useful if you have Front Page extensions installed on your site you can "ban" the hidden files Front Page makes. i.e. "_vti_cnf"

The subroutines can also be tailored to fit your site.

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