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<p>Forrest provides you with two distinct options for making your
documentation available through full-text search:</p>
<ul>
<li>Google SiteSearch,</li>
<li>Built-in search using Apache Lucene.</li>
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<p>Both options have their advantages and disadvantages. The
purpose of this document is to outline them, and to help you
make a choice. This document also tells you how to disable
full-text search completely, if you so choose.</p>
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<h2 class="underlined_10">Google SiteSearch</h2>
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<p>Forrest provides a simple interface to the Google search
engine. It invokes Google Advanced Search and limits the search
scope to the domain of your choice. Since the actual search
functionality is implemented on Google's end, you do not need
any additional capability on your Forrest server (which may
well be a simple static web server serving content generated
with <span class="codefrag">forrest site</span>).</p>
<p>To use Google SiteSearch in your Forrest application, open
your <span class="codefrag">skinconf.xml</span> file. By default this file is
in the <span class="codefrag">src/documentation</span> subdirectory of your
Forrest repository root. Find the <span class="codefrag">&lt;search&gt;</span>
element; it should be near the top of the file. If the element
does not exist, create it below the
<span class="codefrag">&lt;skinconfig&gt;</span> opening tag. If there is any
attribute named <span class="codefrag">provider</span>, remove it. The element
should look similar to this:</p>
<pre class="code">&lt;search name="MyProject"
domain="myproject.com"/&gt;</pre>
<p>Then, build your Forrest documentation and open it using your
favorite web browser. You are now invited to peruse the search
box (most skins render this in the top-right corner). Google's
search results will be displayed in a new browser window.</p>
<p>Needless to say, for this to work your content must be
accessible to Google's indexing robot. It can't be stored on a
server which is only locally accessible, or which requires
authentication. In addition, the content index is created and
updated at a time of Google's choosing. However, the search is fast
and search precision is usually excellent. So if your
Forrest content is placed on a busy, popular public web
server, Google search is probably the best choice.</p>
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<p>Lucene is a high-performance, full-text search engine built
entirely in Java. To use Lucene-based search with your Forrest
documentation, you will need to run Forrest in a Java servlet
environment (such as Tomcat or Jetty). Lucene-based searching
will not work in a static site generated with the '<span class="codefrag">forrest
site</span>' command.</p>
<p>In order to enable Lucene-based full-text search in your
Forrest application, you must first edit your
<span class="codefrag">skinconf.xml</span> file. Locate the
<span class="codefrag">&lt;search&gt;</span> element. If the element does not
exist, insert it right underneath the
<span class="codefrag">&lt;skinconfig&gt;</span> opening tag. Add an attribute
named <span class="codefrag">provider</span> with a value of
<span class="codefrag">lucene</span>, so that the element looks similar to
this:</p>
<pre class="code">&lt;search name="MyProject" domain="myproject.com"
provider="lucene"/&gt;</pre>
<p>Next, create and run your Forrest webapp. This may mean
simply invoking <span class="codefrag">forrest run</span>, or building and
bundling a servlet webapp (with <span class="codefrag">forrest webapp</span>),
and then deploying it to your servlet container.</p>
<p>You can now build a Lucene search index by pointing your web
browser at
<span class="codefrag">http://localhost:8888/lucene-update.html</span>. This
generates the search index and provides some information about
the index generation process.</p>
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<div class="label">Note</div>
<div class="content">You may have to substitute a different hostname, port, or
path, depending on your configuration. The path mentioned here
reflects Forrest's default settings when invoked as
<span class="codefrag">forrest run</span>.</div>
</div>
<p>Now you can utilize the full-text search box, located in the
top-right corner of the rendered Forrest pages. Search results
will be displayed in the same browser window and will look
remarkably similar to the rest of your Forrest documents.</p>
<p>Unlike with Google SiteSearch, the indexing information
retrieved by Lucene is stored on your own server, access to
which you may limit to users in your own organization.
Likewise, you may update or recreate the Lucene index at any
time and at your own discretion. So if you aren't making your
Forrest-built documentation publicly available, and you're
able to run Forrest on a Java-enabled web server, Lucene
search is probably right for you.</p>
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<h2 class="underlined_10">Disabling full-text search</h2>
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<p>If you are convinced your users don't need any full-text
search capability whatsoever, you may disallow displaying the
search box entirely. You may also wish to do so if you're
keeping Forrest-built content on a restricted server (meaning
you can't use Google), while at the same time not having any
usable servlet-capable web server at your disposal (meaning
you can't use Lucene, either).</p>
<p>To disable full-text search completely, open the
<span class="codefrag">skinconf.xml</span> file and remove (or comment out) the
entire <span class="codefrag">&lt;search&gt;</span> element.</p>
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