SFgate

Table of Contents

• 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Architecture
• 2 Requirements and Related Stuff
  • 2.1 HTTP Server
  • 2.2 Perl
  • 2.3 freeWAIS-sf
  • 2.4 The Perl Module Wais.pm
  • 2.5 SFgate
  • 2.6 SFproxy
  • 2.7 Further Documentation
• 3 Building and Installing SFgate
  • 3.1 Prerequisites
  • 3.2 Unpacking the distribution
  • 3.3 Configure SFgate
    • 3.3.1 Questions
      • 3.3.1.1 Installation Directory for Perl Libraries
      • 3.3.1.2 Installation Directory for Perl Libraries
      • 3.3.1.3 The Default Directory for WAIS Databases
      • 3.3.1.4 HTTP Proxy
      • 3.3.1.5 Place of Your HTML pages
      • 3.3.1.6 Document Directory for SFgate
      • 3.3.1.7 Virtual Name of the Document Directory
      • 3.3.1.8 Directory for CGI Scripts
      • 3.3.1.9 Virtual Name of the CGI Directory
      • 3.3.1.10 Directory for Application Files
      • 3.3.1.11 Directory for SFgate.log
      • 3.3.1.12 Sending a Registration Mail
      • 3.3.1.13 Sending a Registration Mail
    • 3.3.2 The Configuration File
  • 3.4 Make the Executable and Running the Tests
  • 3.5 Installing
    • 3.5.1 Configuring Your CERN HTTPD
    • 3.5.2 Configuring Your NCSA HTTPD
• 4 SFgate Demos
• 5 Building SFgate Applications
  • 5.1 Configuring SFgate Searches
  • 5.2 SFgate Query Syntax
  • 5.3 HTML Forms
  • 5.4 Databases
  • 5.5 The Query Part
    • 5.5.1 freeWAIS-sf Fields as FORM Tags
    • 5.5.2 More than one FORM Tag per Field
    • 5.5.3 Date Fields
    • 5.5.4 Selecting Fields at Run Time
    • 5.5.5 Predicates for Numeric Fields
    • 5.5.6 Indextypes for Textual Fields
    • 5.5.7 Boolean Connection of Query Conditions
    • 5.5.8 Grouping of Query Conditions
  • 5.6 SFgate Output
    • 5.6.1 Layout Considerations
      • 5.6.1.1 Page Headers and Footers
      • 5.6.1.2 Language of SFgate Output
    • 5.6.2 The Headline Menu
      • 5.6.2.1 Verbose Headlines
      • 5.6.2.2 Multiple Choice Headline Menu
      • 5.6.2.3 Headline Style
      • 5.6.2.4 Maximum Number of Hits
      • 5.6.2.5 Omit Headline Menu
      • 5.6.2.6 Pointer to Further Matching Documents
    • 5.6.3 Presenting Documents
      • 5.6.3.1 Converting Documents
      • 5.6.3.2 Converting Document Headlines
    • 5.6.4 WAIS Source descriptions
  • 5.7 Miscellanous
    • 5.7.1 Obtain Debugging Information
      • 5.7.1.1 Dump the Environment
      • 5.7.1.2 Debug Information
    • 5.7.2 Obtain Logging Information
    • 5.7.3 Detexing for German special Characters
    • 5.7.4 Direct WWW URLs
• 6 Heterogeneous Databases
  • 6.1 Mapping of Attributes
  • 6.2 Predefined Attribute Lattice
  • 6.3 Attribute Mapping in Practice
  • 6.4 Further References
• A Sample SFgate Application
• B Some SFgate Applications
• C The Detailed Query Syntax
• Index

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