Web Search: Setup

Setting Up Web-Search...

Quick 3-Step Instructions
Detailed instructions [coming]
See also: the FAQ, featuring:
- How do I make the database for my search engine?
- How do I make a searchable hotlist with Web-Search?

Quick 3-Step Instructions

Requirements: you have to have CGI access on a Unix machine that runs Perl (version 4 or 5).
1: Stick in the CGI.
Put the Web Search CGI in a directory where you can run CGIs. The script is named "websearch.cgi".

2: Stick in the database.
Save your spreadsheet as "text, tab-delimited", and then put it in the same directory as the Web Search CGI. The CGI is named "websearch.cgi", then name the database file "websearch.cgi.txt".

3: Make the HTML form.
There's a hundred options for formatting, searching, matching and sorting, but to start with, this'll work:
(Substitute your user ID for "websearch" and correct path to YOUR cgi bin.)
    <FORM ACTION="http://www.web-search.com/websearch.cgi">
    <INPUT NAME="all">
    <INPUT TYPE="submit">
    <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="1sp-license" VALUE="websearch">
    </FORM>
(Please note that the 1sp-license tag is required; you'll get an empty search without it.) Note: That's a number "one", NOT lower case L