The Search button, found on the main NetWinder page, allows you to search for keywords through all of the web pages on the NetWinder. The search database updates itself every morning at 4:00 a.m.
As with several other NetWinder services, the search engine feature is part of the Web Server, and so it cannot be disabled. However, it provides several configuration options.
If you click the word Configure next to Search Engine, you will see the following page:
The options are as follows:
Index URLs. This is the top-level web page, or set of pages, from which indexing begins. The default values are probably correct for most users.
If you want to add your own documents you can add additional directories here, separated by spaces.
Index user directories. You can decide whether each user's home page will be included in the web search. When you create a new user, his pages will be indexed by default.
Limit URLs To. This is a list of patterns that constitute "indexable" URLs. Normally, this is the magic value ${start_url}, which means that only pages found inside any of the locations given in Index URLs will be included in the index.
For example, if one of your web documents links to an external web server (say www.linux.com), the search engine won't index the external web server unless you include its URL in the Limit URLs To field.
For example, to allow links to www.linux.com, try changing the field to: ${start_url} www.linux.com.
Exclude URLs. Here, you can list pages that you definitely don't want to index. The default value, /cgi-bin/ .cgi, means that your NetWinder won't index CGI pages (which are dynamically generated, self-changing web pages). If you have other pages that you don't want in the index, add them to this list.
Maintainer email. This is the e-mail address that the search engine uses to identify itself if it tries to index files on someone else's web server. For example, if you index files on www.microsoft.com, the NetWinder will send the Maintainer address to www.microsoft.com so Microsoft will know who's indexing its server.
NOTE: It is considered impolite to index other people's web servers using your NetWinder, unless you have explicit permission. There are plenty of Internet search engines available already; you should use those instead. Indexing web sites also uses a large chunk of your Internet connection and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.
If you do decide to index someone else's server, be certain to fill in the Maintainer field on this page so that the server's owner can contact you in case of problems.
When finished making changes, click the Save button to continue.