Site Search Recomendation?

something easy to setup that allows folder excludes

[mbatta]

Hello all,

I've been trying to figure out what to do about a site search. I need something sort of simple because Im sort of scripting challenged but can get around somewhat.
I need to be able to specify which folder(s) from my root are included in the search. This is very important for I have several different sites on the same host.
I've tried the entropy search feature that comes w/ cpanel (host is unix/apache) but cant seem to get it to stick to the one site's folder.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[lbobke]

if you are looking for an external search engine, I'd recommend FreeFind - it can be customised a lot and you can specify which parts of a website to spider and which ones not. It's very easily configured as well.
If you stick with the free option, it will spider your site once a day.
There are size limits for the free version as well, but you have to have quite a bit of text content to exceed those.

Of course, there are many search scripts that you could run from your own site.

Laurenz

[mack]

I agree Free Find is a pretty good service and I have used it myself in the past. However I am a great beliver in doing it yourself. I would be tempted to take a look through some of the script resource sites sich as hotscripts etc and have a look for a suitable site search script.

I know you said you arent to good with scripts but this could be a great oppertunity to learn :)

To be honest most scripts have pretty good documentation and if you follow the read me file you should be ok.

Mack.