1   Douglas Thrift's Search Engine ReadMe
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3   Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2008, Douglas Thrift. All Rights Reserved.
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5   $Id: README 376 2008-08-24 06:27:56Z douglas $
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7   OSI Certified Open Source Software
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9   Douglas Thrift's Search Engine Version 1.3
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11   Douglas Thrift's Search Engine is an indexing search engine for use on small
12   websites such as personal or small business sites.  It is designed to be
13   very similar to Google for end users and its output is customizable.  For
14   indexing, it supports both the Robots Exclusion Protocol and the Robots META
15   Tag as specified at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html .
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17   For more information, mailing lists, and updates see
18   http://computers.douglasthrift.net/searchengine/ .
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20   System Requirements
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22   To run Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Windows you need:
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24   �  Windows 95/98/ME or Windows NT 4/2000/XP or higher
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26   �  Perl 5.6 or higher (available at
27      http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ )
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29   Of course, it would also be a good idea to have an HTTP Server that supports
30   CGI, such as Apache (available at http://httpd.apache.org/ ).
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32   To run Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Unix and other platforms you can
33   build it from the source distribution.
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35   Installation
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37   To install Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Windows just run the installer
38   program.  If you upgrade Windows from a Windows 9x OS to a Windows NT OS you
39   will need to reinstall.
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41   Building
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43   To build on Windows unzip the distribution file, open a Command Prompt,
44   change to the directory where you unzipped, and type the following commands:
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46   > perl windows.pl
47   > nmake
48   > nmake install
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50   To see more options for Windows building use the following command:
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52   > perl windows.pl -help
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54   To build on Unix decompress and unarchive the distribution file and change
55   to the directory where you unarchived and type the following commands:
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57   # ./configure
58   # make
59   # make install
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61   To see more options for Unix building use the following command:
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63   # ./configure --help
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65   OpenSSL
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67   As of version 1.2, Douglas Thrift's Search Engine can be built with HTTPS
68   support using OpenSSL 0.9.7 or higher.  Information about building with
69   OpenSSL is provided by the help options referenced in the Building section.
70   For more information about OpenSSL see http://www.openssl.org/ .
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