I am brand new to scripting on websites, but have been creating applications with VB and MS Access for over a decade so I'm not a novice. I wanted to add a simple search to my website that will find a recipe. My site has nearly 30,000 recipes on it. Freeservers does not support aspx, or apx, but they do have cgi support, and Perl. I downloaded a simple search Perl script from Matt's script archive. According to the instructions, if I'm reading it right, what it is supposed to do is read the files listed in the @files section. I configured it according to the directions, using the correct syntax, and file paths, but it does not seem to work. It is supposed to search through the *.htm files read the title tag for a key word entered on the search page. then produce a result page with the urls of the matching pages it found. With thousands of recipes, that should take a few minutes at least right? Well, as soon as you click submit, the result page instantly appears, with no results. I know it's reading the script because if I deliberately change a setting to something that I know is wrong, it bombs out. I downloaded a second script from NMS project dubbed a "drop in" for the original script. This does the same thing. Is anyone familiar with these scripts and can help me? The section of my site that has the search page is http://jweatherly.iwrap.com/food.html If I can get it working, perhaps I'll set one up for the galleries of my model car collection. That has hundreds of files. I could also copy and paste the script here for everyone to check out. Any help would be appreciated thanks. Jim.
You mean that thing where you install an extension of google on your system? I tried that. It did not work either. You need the exact name of the recipe including punctuation. No partial words.