Profiles

Note: This documentation is for an old version of Webinator. The latest documentaion is here.

Profiles

This page presents a list of existing profiles. A profile contains the walk and search settings for a collection of pages. The profiles are listed in the order of creation by default; clicking on Name will re-order by profile name. You can click on a profile's name to see and/or change its settings and status or to start a walk.

You can 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 has created is deleted. There is no way to get back any of these items after the profile is deleted. Note: 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 should not delete a database that is being actively searched. If you do this, you will need 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 generally specify a new data directory. The directory will be created if it does not already exist.

You can copy settings from an existing profile to your new profile by selecting its name from the drop down list. This allows you to set up another site similar to an existing one. It allows you to experiment with the walk settings for an existing site, without potentially harming the good walk that is being searched by your users.

You can also import options from an existing Webinator 2 database. 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 creates a walk and load settings from the specified old database.

Here are notes about the import process and differences between versions 2 and 4.

-[no]unique: Databases are unique by default (``Prevent Duplicates'' 4.5.55).
-j: It is automatically implied (``Stay Under'' 4.5.54).
-k: The default expressions are broader (``Word Definition'' 4.5.42). 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''4.4.7 list and/or MIME types to the ``Mime Types''4.5.77 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.