QuickFinder Server 4.0 Administration Guide

This guide describes how to use QuickFinder™ Server (formerly known as NetWare® Web Search Server) to add search functionality to your Internet or intranet Web site. It is divided into the following sections:

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone involved in installing, managing, and using QuickFinder Server to create search services.

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In this documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and items within a cross-reference path.

A trademark symbol (®,™, etc.) denotes a Novell® trademark. An asterisk ( *) denotes a third-party trademark.

When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for other platforms, the pathname is presented with a backslash. Users of platforms that require a forward slash, such as UNIX *, should use forward slashes as required by your software.

IMPORTANT:In prior versions of NetWare Web Server, the term search site was defined as a collection of one or more indexes and related configuration files. To avoid confusion with the term Web site, the term was changed wherever it appeared in the documentation and in the variables and parameters. Search site is now referred to as virtual search server.

New variables and parameters that parallel the term virtual search server have been added. They function identically to the prior variables and parameters, and that the old variables and parameters can still be used.

Similarly, the term collection has been changed to index.

We recommend that you start using the newer variables and parameters in order to avoid confusion.