User Guide

Creating and Managing Search Sites 151
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
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August 29, 2001
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Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
For example, volume:\searchroot\sites\mysites.
By default, index files are stored at
volume:\searchroot\sites\default\indexes\.
HINT: Changes made to Additional Settings override Default Site Settings.
13 From the Encoding (If Not in META Tags) drop-down list, select the
encoding to be used by files being indexed that do not contain an
encoding specification.
14 In the Maximum File Size to Index field, enter the maximum file size
(in bytes) that Web Search should index.
Files exceeding this size will not be indexed and therefore, will not be
included in search results.
15 In the Maximum Time to Download a URL field, enter a number (in
seconds) before Web Search automatically cancels the indexing of a site.
16 To direct Web Search to pay attention to case of filenames and directory
names, click Yes next to URLs are Case Sensitive.
17 To direct Web Search to crawl dynamic content (URLs containing the
question mark [?]), click Yes next to Crawl Dynamic URLs.
Once you define an index, you must generate it to make it searchable. See
“Generating Indexes” on page 153.
Defining a New File System Index
Using the Define File System Index Page
1
From the Web Search Manager Global Settings page, click Manage in the
row of the site that you want to work with.
2 Under Define a New Index, click New File System Index > Define Index.
3 In the Index Name field, enter a name for your index.
4 In the Server Path to be Indexed field, enter the absolute path to the folder
containing the information that you want indexed.
For example, SYS:\SALES\REPORTS.
5 In the Corresponding URL Prefix field, enter the URL that should be used
by the search results page to access the individual files.
For example, /SALES.