Douglas Thrift's Search Engine ReadMe

   Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2008, Douglas Thrift. All Rights Reserved.

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   Douglas Thrift's Search Engine Version 1.3

   Douglas Thrift's Search Engine is an indexing search engine for use on small
   websites such as personal or small business sites.  It is designed to be
   very similar to Google for end users and its output is customizable.  For
   indexing, it supports both the Robots Exclusion Protocol and the Robots META
   Tag as specified at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html .

   For more information, mailing lists, and updates see
   http://computers.douglasthrift.net/searchengine/ .

   System Requirements

   To run Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Windows you need:

   ·  Windows 95/98/ME or Windows NT 4/2000/XP or higher

   ·  Perl 5.6 or higher (available at
      http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ )

   Of course, it would also be a good idea to have an HTTP Server that supports
   CGI, such as Apache (available at http://httpd.apache.org/ ).

   To run Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Unix and other platforms you can
   build it from the source distribution.

   Installation

   To install Douglas Thrift's Search Engine on Windows just run the installer
   program.  If you upgrade Windows from a Windows 9x OS to a Windows NT OS you
   will need to reinstall.

   Building

   To build on Windows unzip the distribution file, open a Command Prompt,
   change to the directory where you unzipped, and type the following commands:

   > perl windows.pl
   > nmake
   > nmake install

   To see more options for Windows building use the following command:

   > perl windows.pl -help

   To build on Unix decompress and unarchive the distribution file and change
   to the directory where you unarchived and type the following commands:

   # ./configure
   # make
   # make install

   To see more options for Unix building use the following command:

   # ./configure --help

   OpenSSL

   As of version 1.2, Douglas Thrift's Search Engine can be built with HTTPS
   support using OpenSSL 0.9.7 or higher.  Information about building with
   OpenSSL is provided by the help options referenced in the Building section.
   For more information about OpenSSL see http://www.openssl.org/ .