Profiles
This page will present a list of existing profiles. A profile contains the walk and search settings for a collection of pages. You may click on the profile name to see and/or change it's settings and status or to start a walk.
You may click on Delete next to a profile to delete that profile.
You will be asked whether you really want to delete the profile or not.
When a profile is deleted all of its settings are lost and any walk database it may have created is deleted. There is no way to get any of these back once the profile is deleted. Under Windows it is possible that the walk database will not be completely deleted if there are currently searches being performed on the database. You shouldn't be deleting a database that is being actively searched. If you get into this situation you will have to delete the remnants of the database by hand.
You may also create a new profile by entering a new name and data directory. You may not use a data directory that is in use by another profile. You would generally specify a new data directory. The directory will be created if it does not already exist.
You may copy settings from an existing profile to your new profile by selecting it's name from the drop down list. This would allow you to setup another site similar to an existing one. It would also allow you to experiment with the walk settings for an existing site without potentially messing up the good walk that is being searched by your users.
You may also import options from an existing Webinator 2 database that
you may have. To do this fill in the New Profile Name and
Data Directory normally, then also fill in the
Webinator 2 database field with the full path to the old database
from which you would like to import options. If the options were stored
in a profile other than the default of lastrun using the gw
-save fill in the name of the desired profile in
the Webinator 2 profile box. Then click Import Settings.
This will create a walk and load settings from the specified old database.
Notes about the import process and differences between versions 2 and 4.
- -[no]unique: Databases are unique by default (``Prevent Duplicates'' 4.5.34).
- -j: It is automatically implied (``Stay Under'' 4.5.33).
- -k: The default expressions are broader (``Word Definition'' 4.5.27). The import will replace the defaults with what is in your old profile.
- -n: All known plugins are predefined in dowalk function
doplugin. You may need to add extensions to the ``Extensions''4.4.6 list and/or mime types to the ``Mime Types''4.5.49 list though. Import will do this for you. - -r: Robots META tags are also supported. Import will apply your old setting to both robots.txt and meta robots.
- -b: Permanently on (walks are always breadth first).
- -L: Permanently on (virtual hosting demands it).
- -l: Not changeable. Log files contain different information.
- -q: Quit time is not supported.
- -c, -A: Site copying is not supported.
- -[no]dnscache: DNS caching is not supported.
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