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Excite Search Engine

Search engines help visitors to your site locate what they need quickly and easily. AAPT can provide the well-known Excite search engine for you to use in your AAPT Web site.

Excite for Web Servers uses a simple Web-browser interface and offers all the features you'll need to administer, index and use advanced concept-based searching over a collection of documents.

Important conditions of use

There are some important conditions to observe before using the Excite Search Engine. Read the licensing agreement carefully before using the product.

Some particularly important requirements to observe are:

Ensure the search page on the site where this product is installed contains at least one link to http://www.excite.com/navigate/
The Perl scripts incorporated with the Excite package may be used only in conjunction with this product and are subject to all the terms and conditions of the License Agreement, but modifications to the scripts may be made to facilitate use of this product.
Disassembly and other reverse engineering of this product are strictly prohibited.

Finding help

The Excite folder contains detailed and useful help files entitled:

These files are also available from the Excite web site.
Please take a few moments to review these files before you begin and refer to them first for any queries you may have.

Please note that Excite is a free unsupported product, both by AAPT and Excite. If you are having problems with your Excite we suggest that you look over the documentation that is provided with Excite, and on the Excite for web servers page.
Other Suggested pages to visit are:

Excite is known to have difficulties indexing html pages with "non-standard" HTML code. If you are having difficulties indexing your site, you can test the Excite engine by telling it to index your logs directory. This directory is a good choice because all the pages use standard HTML. To do this, you would put in a path similar to: /import/clients/first letter/login/your_domain/htdocs/logs
into the section labelled "Index the files and directories listed here: " on the collection configuration form. If this location indexes successfully, you can be sure that your Excite installation is operational.

Requesting Excite Installation

Excite installation is done free of charge, and can be arranged by emailing support@connect.com.au or alternativly by filling in our on-line Support Request Form.
Excite is available for ConnectWeb Unix sites only.

To assist in your request, we ask that you copy and paste this template into your email, and provide all requested information.

 Website URL(s):
 Website Login Name:

 Your Name:
 Your email address:
 Your contact phone number:
 Best time to contact you:

Please allow at least 3 working days for the installation to be performed.