htsearch(1)		    General Commands Manual		   htsearch(1)



NAME
       htsearch	 -  create  document  index and word database for the ht://Dig
       search engine

SYNOPSIS
       htsearch [options] [query_string]

DESCRIPTION
       Htsearch is used to search in de databases created by  htdig  for  con-
       tent.   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 pro-
       gram.

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 secu-
	      rity reasons this option is only available when htsearch is used
	      on the commandline).

       -v -d  Run  in  verbose mode.  This increases the verbosity of the pro-
	      gram.  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.

       /var/www/html/htdig/header.html
	      The default search results header file

       /var/www/html/htdig/footer.html
	      The default search results footer file

       /var/www/html/htdig/wrapper.html
	      The default search  results  wrapper  file,  that	 contains  the
	      header and footer together in one file

       /var/www/html/htdig/nomatch.html
	      The default 'no matches found' HTML file

       /var/www/html/htdig/syntax.html
	      The default file that explains boolean expression syntax errors

SEE ALSO
       Please	refer	to   the   HTML	  pages	 (in  the  htdig-doc  package)
       /usr/share/doc/htdig-doc/html/index.html and the manual pages  htdig(1)
       and htmerge(1) for a detailed description of ht://Dig and its commands.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Stijn de Bekker, based on the HTML doc-
       umentation of ht://Dig.



				6 October 2001			   htsearch(1)