SYNOPSIS

htsearch [options] [query_string]

DESCRIPTION

Htsearch is used to sift through the databases created by htdig for content. It is the actual search engine of the htdig search system. It is a CGI program that is expected to be invoked by an HTML form. It will accept both the GET and POST methods of passing data to the CGI program.

OPTIONS

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 command line).

-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.

FILES

/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

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Stijn de Bekker and updated by Robert Ribnitz. It is based on the HTML documentation of ht://Dig.