dumb web site searching questions...

[hawkman2]

Bare with me, trying to get a handle on how website search boxes/engines/spiders work.


If you just have a "small" (40 some pages) website on one server, do you need somethng as beefy as netscape compass to
do your searching or are there easy code ways to do it??

[ZENYO]

This one seems to be pretty popular and it's free. From Matt's Script Archive. It'scalled Simple search.

http://www.scriptarchive.com/

[gothic]

Matt's scripts are known to be "badly written, buggy, and insecure" - so I give to you:

*queue holy music*

http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml


(My spelling is so wonderful)

[hawkman2]

Cool but....My site is all IIS/windows boxes, don't think a pearl script will work there. I guess I need a javascript or asp solution.

[gothic]

No, you can install PERL in IIS... Just get ActivePERL:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/...?id=ActivePerl

We use it here, it's nice.

[ZENYO]

Thanks Gothic.

I had no idea.