htsearch - CGI interface program to emable searching through the index files created by the ht://Dig search engine

htsearch [options] [query_string]

Htsearch is used to search in the databases created by htdig for content and provides the actual search engine of the htdig search system. As a CGI script it is expected to be invoked as the processor of a HTML form. It will accept both the GET and POST methods of passing data to the CGI program.

query_string

A CGI-style query string can be given as a single argument, and is only used if the REQUEST_METHOD environment variable is not set. If no query_string is given, and REQUEST_METHOD is not set, htsearch will prompt for the query.

-c configfile

Use the specified configfile instead of the default (for security reasons this option is only available when htsearch is used on the commandline).

-v -d

Run in verbose mode. This increases the verbosity of the program. Using more than 2 is probably only useful for debugging purposes. The default verbose mode gives a progress on what it is doing and where it is.

/etc/htdig/htdig.conf

The default configuration file.

/etc/htdig/header.html

The default search results header file

/etc/htdig/footer.html

The default search results footer file

/etc/htdig/wrapper.html

The default search results wrapper file, that contains the header and footer together in one file

/etc/htdig/nomatch.html

The default 'no matches found' HTML file

/etc/htdig/syntax.html

The default file that explains boolean expression syntax errors

Please refer to the HTML pages (in the htdig-doc package) or the website at http://www.htdig.org for a more thorugh discussion of the possible options. /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages htdig(1) and htmerge(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.

This manual page was written by Stijn de Bekker, based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig.