Setting Up the Personal Search Program

Setup a "cgi-bin" directory under your main document area.
This could be under a departmental area or your own personal area. You can do this using your ftp client (Fetch or WS_FTP), or telnet to www.csuchico.edu and use normal Unix commands. You'll need to make the cgi-bin directory publically executable. Examples (assuming telnet login):
- A Department Directory
  - cd /m3/webdocs/acms <<-- change to acms directrory
  - mkdir cgi-bin <<-- create the cgi-bin directory
  - chmod 755 cgi-bin <<-- fix permissions
- Your Personal Directory
  - cd public_html <<--get into your public_html directory
  - mkdir cgi-bin <<--create a cgi-bin directory
  - chmod 755 cgi-bin <<--fix permissions

Copy the sample search.html (use View Source from your browser to look at html code) page to some place that is Web server accessible for the area you wish to search.
Recommendations are the top-level of your Web document tree, the department top-level area /m3/webdocs/"dept" or, for your own area, /m1/"userid"/public_html.
Make needed changes in the page as indicated by the UPPER CASE comments in the HTML source.
This is a very simplistic search page. Feel feel to customize it's look to suit your own design tastes. Fix permissions on "search.html" of course to make it Web accessible.
- cp /m3/webdocs/computing/WEBHELPER/search.html /m3/webdocs/"dept"/search.html, or
- cp /m3/webdocs/computing/WEBHELPER/search.html /m1/"userid"/public_html

Copy the search_plus.pl program to the cgi-bin directory you created.
- cd cgi-bin <<--get into the cgi-bin directory
- cp /m3/webdocs/computing/WEBHELPER/search_plus.pl search_plus.pl

Customize the search_plus Program Parameters
- Edit the search_plus.pl program with a text editor and put in your own values for the following variables (defined in the program, see the comments for description and syntax):
  $basedir, $baseurl, @files, @ignore, $title, $title_url, $search_url