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1. To manually index your website, navigate to the Setup Tool. Login in as Administrator and then click the Search Tools tab.
   
   
   
   If the search engine is running correctly, the number of indexed pages plus some other information appears in the lower part of the page under "Server Status" . Normally when the search engine has been started for the first time the number of pages will be 0:
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Right above the "Search status" information is the "Index URL" pane. This pane contains three fields that tell the search engine

   • where to start crawling the website (the URL field).
   • which domains are allowed (the host field). This should contain at least the front-end frontend hostname and the backend hostname. Optionally this can contain front-end frontend and backend alias hostnames. Multiple hostnames must be separated by a comma.
   • how deep the crawler goes. Normally this is set to 1, which means the crawler will index the page in the URL field plus all the pages that are linked from the URL page.
   
   
   
   
   

   By default the URL field contains the URL of the so-called indexer page. This indexer page contains links to all accessible XperienCentral pages, documents and articles. The URL is normally something like http://<domain>:<port>/web/webmanager?id=39016. To see all the URLs that will be indexed, open this URL in a separate window.
   
   

2. Click on the [Index] button to start the indexing process. The search engine crawler will open the indexer page and start indexing all the pages and documents. This process will take anywhere from several seconds for a small website to several hours for a large website. For a detailed description of the indexing process see Crawling.

   
   
   
   
   

   In the upper part of the ‘"Search Tools" tab the search engine can be tested by entering one or more search terms and hitting <Enter> or by clicking on the [Relevance] or [Date] buttons:
   
   
   
   

   In a normal situation this should return results. If there are zero documents in the index, or if there are documents in the index that are not returned in the search field, or there is a certain document that’s missing, see Search Engine Troubleshooting.

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