Installation Instructions for Advance Search

Please do not modify or redistribute this software in any form. All contents are copyrighted to Perlonline.com

Installation

Unzip the advsearch.zip file into a separate directory in your hard disk. It will contain the following files.

1. config.cgi Your configuration file
2. search.cgi The search script
3. template.htm The template file to control your output
5. readme.htm This file

In the default setup, we are going to install Advance Domain in /cgi-bin/advsearch on your server.

Information to collect before installation.

  1. Location of Perl on your server, its usually /usr/bin/perl.

Step 1
If your location of perl is different from /usr/bin/perl, open search.cgi and change the first line to show where perl is.

Your files are now ready for uploading via FTP.

Step 2

Follow these instructions exactly.

On your server change to /cgi-bin directory.

Make a directory called advsearch and change into it.

Change your upload method to ASCII and upload the following files, search.cgi, config.cgi, template.htm

CHMOD search.cgi to 755

Your files should now look something like this.

/cgi-bin/advsearch/    
  search.cgi
config.cgi
template.htm
 
   


Step 3

Before customizing we are going to do a quick search to see if the script worked.

In your browser type http://yousite.com/cgi-bin/advsearch/search.cgi?q=contact

Did the script work properly?

Step 4 - Controlling the way the script works via config.cgi

You can modify the following variables

#Types of files to display
@types = (".htm",".html",".shtml");

#Ignore Directories in the search
@ignoredirectory = ("/admin","/cgi-bin");

#Number of search results to show
$maxshow = 50;

Step 5 - Controlling the output

This is the easiest part, just open the file called template.htm in your favorite html editor and edit it. Only make sure that the variable $output$ is not removed. Do not use Server Side Include in template.htm


Problems in Installation?

If you are having problems installing our scripts, We will install it for you FREE OF CHARGE.

Please contact support@perlonline.com with the following information.

FTP Server :
FTP Login :
FTP Password :
Nature of Problem :

Why is the script all jumbled up :-

You are not allowed to modify these script. All options that can be customized can be found in config.cgi. Updates in the future will replace all files except config.cgi.


Legal

This code must not be altered or sold in any manner. The purchased version should be used only on one domain, which you registered with us. Any use of this program is entirely at the risk of the user. No liability will be accepted by the author.

Use of the software will be taken as acceptance of the above terms.

Hope you enjoy using this Software, it you have any suggestions on how to improve it, do email us.

The Perlonline Team.

Support : support@perlonline.com
Url : http://www.perlonline.com