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

Contents

• Document Conventions
• Overview
  • Features
  • Obtaining Webinator
  • Technical Support
• Installation
  • Unix Download and Installation
  • Windows Download and Installation
  • Filesystem Layout
  • File Permissions and OS Specific Notes
  • Customizing Webinator's Appearance
• Operation
  • Running the Administrative Interface
  • First Time Run: Quick Start
    • Step 1: Create an Account
    • Step 2: Create a Profile
    • Step 3: Walk the Profile
    • Last Step: Search
  • Administrative Interface Overview
    • Entry
    • Basic Walk Settings
    • All Walk Settings
    • Search Settings
    • Profile Tools
      • List/Edit URLs
      • List Duplicates
      • Test Fetch
      • Best Bet Groups
    • Walk Status
      • Now button
      • Pause/Auto button
      • STOP walk button
      • Pause walk and Make live button
    • Query Log
    • Test Search
    • Live Search
    • Profiles
    • Accounts
      • Add a User
      • Change Password
      • Delete
    • User Groups
    • Access Control
    • Maintenance
    • Documentation
    • Webinator Home
    • Logout
  • Basic Walk Settings
    • Database
    • Walk Summary
    • Notes
    • Base URL
    • Enterprise
    • Robots
    • Allow Extensions
    • All Extensions
    • Exclude Extensions
    • Exclusions
    • Crawl Delay
    • Parallelism
    • Verbosity
    • Rewalk Type
      • New
      • Refresh
      • Refresh in version 5 vs. 4
      • Rewalk Type Summary Table
    • Rewalk Schedule
    • Action Buttons
  • Advanced Walk Settings
    • Watch URL
    • Notify
    • Attach Logs
    • Categories
    • Categories Type
    • URL File
    • URL URL
    • Single Page
    • Page File
    • Page URL
    • Strip Queries
    • Ignore Case
    • Extra Domains
    • Extra Networks
    • Extra URLs REX
    • Exclusion REX
    • Exclusion Prefix
    • Exclude by Field
    • Additional Fields
    • Data from Field
      • Data From Field Example - Using Description for Title
      • Data From Field Example - using PublishDate for Modified Date
      • Data From Field Example - grabbing Price from meta
      • Data From Field Example - grabbing Price from Text
    • Required REX
    • Required Prefix
    • Max Page Size
    • Max Pages
    • Max Bytes
    • Max Depth
    • Max URL Size
    • Max Requests
    • Max Connection Lifetime
    • Page Timeout
    • Meta Tags
    • Standard Meta
    • All Meta
    • Storage Charset
    • Source Default Charset
    • XML UTF-8
    • Keep HTML
    • Keep Links
    • Remove Common
    • Ignore Tags
    • Keep Tags
    • Ignore Characters
    • Plugin Split
    • Language Analysis
    • CJK Mode
    • Word Definition
    • Text Search Mode
    • Attribute Compare Mode
    • Index Fields
    • Compound Index Fields
    • Extra Indexes
    • Spell-check Dictionaries
    • Primer Type
    • Primer URLs
      • Submitting the Form Directly: Custom Primer URL
      • Filling Out the Form: Custom Primer Variables
      • Checking for Bad Logins: Bad Login MM Query
      • Multiple Primers: Base URL MM Query
    • Login Info
    • Proxy
    • Proxy Login Info
    • Cookie Source Path
    • Off-Site Pages
    • Stay Under
    • Prevent Duplicates
    • Duplicate Check Fields
    • Store Refs
    • Inline Iframes
    • Max Frames
    • Execute JavaScript
    • Fetch JavaScript
    • JavaScript String Links
    • Debug JavaScript
    • JavaScript Memory
    • JavaScript Timeout
    • Protocols
    • HTTP Version
    • SSL Client Protocols
    • Authentication Schemes
    • Embedded Security
    • Entropy Source
    • Multiple Fetches
    • Follow Cross-Site Links
    • Max Redirects
    • Empty Form Redirects
    • Index Name
    • DNS Mode
    • Net Mode
    • User Agent
    • Mime Types
    • Respect Expires Header
    • Default Refresh Time
    • Minimum Refresh Time
    • Maximum Refresh Time
    • Maximum Process Size
    • Replication Settings
    • Debug Replication
  • Search Settings
    • Notes
    • Query Logging
    • Rotate Schedule
    • Email
    • Result Order
    • Results Style
    • Allow RSS
    • Format XSL Output
    • XSL File
    • Abstract Style
    • Abstract Length
    • Max Title Length
    • Max URL Display Length
    • Results per Page
    • Max User Results per Page
    • Page Links Shown
    • Results Width
    • Box Color
    • Show Advanced Search
    • Results Highlighting
    • Context Highlighting
    • PDF Query Highlighting
    • Font
    • Display Charset
    • Top HTML and Bottom HTML
      • CSS Stylesheet
    • Enable Sherlock
    • Top Best Bet Title
    • Right Best Bet Title
    • Top Best Bet Group
    • Right Best Bet Group
    • Top Best Bet Box Color
    • Right Best Bet Box Color
    • Top Best Bet Border Style
    • Right Best Bet Border Style
    • Right Best Bet Box Width
    • Authorization Method
    • Login Cookies
    • Login URL
    • Basic/NTLM/file Cookie Type
    • Login Verification URL
    • Unauthorized Result Query
    • Username Fixup
      • Examples
    • Max Docs to Auth-Check
    • Successful Auth Result Limit
    • Total Auth Timeout
    • Allow Authorization URL
    • Authorization Caching
    • Debug Results Authorization
    • Show Authorization Info
    • Enable Spell Check
    • Suggest Time Limit
    • Number of Suggestions
    • Synonyms
    • Main Thesaurus
    • Secondary Thesaurus
    • Translate Boolean
    • Allow the @ Operator
    • Allow Linear
    • Allow NOT Logic
    • Allow Post-Processing
    • Allow Wildcards
    • Allow Leading Wildcards
    • Single-Word Wildcards
    • Allow WITHIN Operators
    • Require All Words
    • Resolve Phrase Noise Words
    • Keep Noise Words
    • Noise List
    • Search Timeout
    • Show Error Messages
    • Debug SQL Level
    • Fast Result Counts
    • Proximity
    • Language Characters
    • Word Forms
    • Custom Suffix List
    • Custom Suffix Default Removal
    • Custom Suffix Min Length
    • Word Ordering
    • Word Proximity
    • Database Frequency
    • Document Frequency
    • Position in Text
    • Clicks from Home
    • Ranked Rows
    • XML Export Variables
    • Phishing Protection
    • Decode Displayed URLs
    • Visible
  • Results Authorization
    • Results Authorization Crawl Settings
    • Results Authorization Search Settings
  • Meta Search - Search multiple profiles as one
    • Profile Creation
    • Meta Search Walk Settings
    • Search Settings
  • Access Control
    • User Groups
    • Object hierarchy
    • Access Control Lists
    • Determining Effective Rights
    • Required Rights for Admin Actions
      • Walk and Search Settings
      • Starting and stopping a walk
      • Best Bets
      • List/Edit URLs
      • List Duplicates
      • Walk Status
      • Query Log
      • Profiles
      • Accounts
      • User Groups
      • Access Control
      • Maintenance
  • Running the Walker by Hand
    • Using dowalk
  • Running the Search Interface
  • Maintenance
    • Information
      • Thunderstone Information
    • Install/Upgrade
      • Apply a License
    • System Settings
      • System Wide Settings
      • Enable/Disable Access Control Lists, View/Edit Access Control Lists
      • Custom Thesaurus
      • Save Webinator Settings
      • Restore Webinator Settings
      • Test Network and Servers
      • Advanced Support Tools
• Procedures and Examples
  • Searching your Index
  • Similarity Searching
  • Using the Thesaurus Feature
  • Page Exclusion, Robots.txt, and Meta-robots
  • Indexing Other Sites
  • Indexing Individual Pages
  • Reindexing on a Schedule
  • Checking for Web Server Errors
  • Removing Pages from the Database
  • Erasing the Entire Database
  • Using Multiple Databases
  • Integrating Webinator with your Site
    • Static Host
    • Dynamic Host and HTML
      • Issuing a Query Programmatically
      • dateSource: id vs modified
      • Processing Search Results
    • Dynamic Host and XML
      • Issuing a Query Programmatically
      • Processing Search Results
      • Sample ASP Code
  • Search Result RSS Feeds
  • OpenSearch Support
  • Using Best Bets
    • Quick Creation
    • Fully Customized
  • Using Access Control
    • Initial Lockdown
    • Example: User with Complete Control on One Profile
    • Example: User with Look and Feel Control on All Profiles
  • Replication
    • Replication Overview
    • Procedure
      • Set up the Sender Profile
      • Create the Receiver Profile
    • DataLoad API
      • Submission Format
      • Reply Format
      • Dataload SOAP API
  • Additional Fields
    • Overview
    • Populating
    • Sorting
    • Searching
  • SOAP API
    • SOAP Overview
    • SOAP API vs. XML Output
    • Getting the WSDL
    • Global vs. per-profile WSDLs
    • Configuring the SOAP Interface
      • Dataload SOAP API
    • C# example project
    • SOAP Links for Languages
    • SOAP API search Reference
      • search
      • moreLikeThis
      • showParents function
    • SOAP API admin Reference
      • login
      • listProfiles
      • getProfileStatus
      • addProfile
      • deleteProfile
      • getSettings
      • setSettings
      • getThesauruses
      • setThesaurus
      • deleteThesaurus
  • Thunderstone ISAPI Proxy Module
    • Overview
    • Requirements
    • Installing the Proxy Module
    • Post-Install Setup
      • Grant "Trust for Delegation" to the proxy machine
      • Configuring Internet Explorer for Passing Credentials
      • Configuring Webinator
      • Add the Proxy Machine to Cluster Members
      • Make the Target Profiles Visible
      • Enable Results Authorization for the Target Profile
    • Manually Configuring the Proxy Module
    • Troubleshooting the Proxy Module Authentication
      • Review Installation Steps
      • Machine names and SPNs
      • DelegConfig Diagnostic Tool
      • Launch IE as a different user
• Reference
  • Database and File Usage
  • Walk Database Tables and Fields
  • Options Table Fields
  • Customizing the Search
  • Customizing the Walker
  • Texis ISAPI
    • Overview
    • How it Works
    • Settings for Texis ISAPI
      • Reading values from conf/texis.ini
      • Reading values from the Registry
    • IIS Manual Configuration
      • IIS 5.X or earlier
      • IIS 6 or later
  • CGI Mapping by Vortex File Extension
    • Microsoft IIS
    • Apache
      • Preferred Method: Redirect Handler
      • Alternate Method: Direct Execution
  • XML Elements in Search Results
  • Third-Party Software
  • Version Differences
• Search Interface Help
  • Forming a Query
    • Query Rules of Thumb
    • Overview of Query Abilities
    • Controlling Proximity
    • Ranking Factors
    • Keywords Phrases and Wild-cards
    • Applying Search Logic
    • Natural Language Query
    • Using the Special Pattern Matchers
    • Invoking Thesaurus Expansion
  • Using Word Forms
  • Controlling Proximity
  • Interpreting Search Results
    • Viewing Match Info
    • Finding Similar Documents
    • Showing Document Parents

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