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Configuring Text Search
Users can search through server documents for a specific word or attribute value,
obtaining a set of search results that list all documents that match the query. They
can then select a document from the list to browse it in its entirety. This provides
easy access to server content.
As the server administrator you can:
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Restrict which users and groups are authorized to use text search
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Determine which documents users and groups can access
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Modify the configuration files that govern how text search operates
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Customize the search query and results pages
To enable searching capability on your server, begin by identifying the special
configuration needs of your server, and using the several search configuration
windows to input these. Then you need to identify the directory or directories of
documents that you want prepared for searching, and index the document
information into a searchable database, called a collection. The next several sections
discuss the details of configuring search and indexing collections.
Configuring Text Search
You can configure several aspects of the search function for your server:
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Collection-specific
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Applying across all collections
Collection-specific configuration controls how documents are indexed into a
particular collection, and must be defined before you create the collection. Other
configuring actions can be defined at any time, because they only affect the
searches themselves.
Collection-specific configuration actions are as follows:
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Define URL mappings for the document directories to be indexed
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Define the pattern files to display for searches on a particular collection
Configuration actions that affect all collections, are as follows:
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Establish access control for files and directories
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Define any words you want dropped from the search
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Define the search parameters
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