NetWare Web Search Server

Web Search and Web Server Interaction

The NetWare^® Web Search installation program automatically detects and registers itself with both the Apache and Enterprise Web servers if they are installed on your server. However, the NetWare Web Search Manager (AdminServlet) will be registered only with the Apache Web server, which is the Web server used by all NetWare Web administration utilities (such as NetWare Web Manager and NetWare Remote Manager). The Search and Print servlets will be registered with both Web servers, if available.

IMPORTANT:  Web Search uses the Enterprise server's NLM^TM programs when authorizing rights-based search results. If the Enterprise Web server is not installed, the rights-based search results feature will not work. However, Web Search will continue to operate without this feature and will simply return all search results.

Regenerating All Indexes after Installation

After upgrading from a previous installation of Web Search to the NetWare 6 version, you must regenerate the older indexes before they can be searched.

Indexes No Longer Listed on Default Search Page

After upgrading from previous versions of Web Search, the list of indexes (formerly called collections) that appear on the default search page might disappear. This is because subsequent versions of Web Search differentiate between the indexes specified by a particular query versus those actually available at the server.

To fix this problem so that all available indexes display on the search page, either use the templates that ship with the newer Web Search (located in the \NSearch\Templates\Samples directory) or make the following changes to the SEARCHTEMPLATE.HTML file that you are currently using as your search page:

1. Change $$BeginCollectionsLoop to $$BeginServerCollectionsLoop.
2. Change $$EndCollectionsLoop to $$EndServerCollectionsLoop.

New Sample Web Search Templates

NetWare Web Search includes new sample search results templates. You should always use the new templates as a basis for your templates.

If you install Web Search over a previous installation, your existing templates will not be overwritten. The new templates will be copied into the volume:\searchroot\TEMPLATES\SAMPLES directory.

To test the sample templates from a Web client machine, include the Theme query parameter with the value Samples:

&theme=Samples&other_query_parameters

You can also temporarily change the TEMPLATES directory to the SAMPLES directory in the Search Properties form in the NetWare Web Search Manager.

Also, all of the template's colors and fonts are now in the volume:\searchroot\DOCS\TEMPLATE.CSS style sheet. This allows you to easily modify fonts and colors across all of your templates to match the design of your Web sites.