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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS VERY OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

ht://Dig - Web Site Search Utility
ht://Dig is a complete Web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. It is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a Web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can easily span several web servers. The type of these different Web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand common protocols like HTTP.

Installation
Connect to your Virtual Server via Telnet or SSH and do the following:

% vinstall htdig

Make sure you examine the ht://Dig configuration file (~/usr/local/htdig-3.1.5/conf/htdig.conf) to make sure the installation process correctly determined your web site address and your web site maintainer e-mail address.

Usage
Once you are comfortable that ht://Dig has been correctly installed, feel free to index your own site by issuing this command:

% virtual /usr/local/htdig/bin/rundig

Setting up a crontab:

After you are satisfied with the results, you can add a crontab entry so that your site is 
regularly indexed for searches:

10 01 * * * /usr/local/bin/virtual /usr/local/htdig/bin/rundig

This will run the htdig reindex every night at 1:10 am.

A simple search page is accessible at the following URL:

http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/htdig/search.html

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS