htsearch

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 6 October 2001
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NAME

htsearch - create document index and word database for the ht://Dig search engine  

SYNOPSIS

htsearch [options] [query_string]  

DESCRIPTION

Htsearch is used to search in de databases created by htdig for content. is the actual search engine of the htdig search system. It is a CGI program that is expected to be invoked by an HTML form. It will accept both the GET and POST methods of passing data to the CGI program.  

OPTIONS

query_string
A CGI-style query string can be given as a single argument, and is only used if the REQUEST_METHOD environment variable is not set. If no query_string is given, and REQUEST_METHOD is not set, htsearch will prompt for the query.
-c configfile
Use the specified configfile instead of the default (for security reasons this option is only available when htsearch is used on the commandline).
-v -d
Run in verbose mode. This increases the verbosity of the program. Using more than 2 is probably only useful for debugging purposes. The default verbose mode gives a progress on what it is doing and where it is.
 

FILES

/etc/htdig/htdig.conf
The default configuration file.
/var/www/html/htdig/header.html
The default search results header file
/var/www/html/htdig/footer.html
The default search results footer file
/var/www/html/htdig/wrapper.html
The default search results wrapper file, that contains the header and footer together in one file
/var/www/html/htdig/nomatch.html
The default 'no matches found' HTML file
/var/www/html/htdig/syntax.html
The default file that explains boolean expression syntax errors
 

SEE ALSO

Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages htdig(1) and htmerge(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.  

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Stijn de Bekker, based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig.