Indexing your web site:

Once the two scripts are in your cgi-bin, you can index your web site by going to...

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/search_index.cgi

This may take a few seconds or longer depending on the size of your web site. When the page finishes loading the script has completed indexing your web site. You should do this whenever you have made changes to your web site so the search script can use the most up-to-date information.

Indexing is a process which searches your web site for keywords and places them in a special file, index.idx, which will appear in your cgi-bin after you index your site. The index.idx file is used by the search script to lookup information quickly.

Searching your web site:

Once the scripts are installed and you have indexed your web site, you may search it by going to the search script directly at...

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/search_form.cgi

Or, you can call the search script with a form inside any HTML page using the following code fragment: