Index

Choosing menu "Index" -> "Index" or clicking the index button on the main toolbar can open the "Index" dialog, where you can start to index your website.

Online mode and offline mode:

Search Engine Composer supports two kinds of indexing: online indexing and offline local computer indexing. Online mode indexes from the online website, e.g., http://www.mtopsoft.com, offline mode indexes the web pages from your local computer.

Add additional websites to index:

By choosing the option "Add additional websites to index", you can index multiple web sites or web folders at the same time, thus give you a  unique search portal for multi web sites.

Offline mode options:

Corresponding base URL:

This string will be added to the result link address as a prefix.

• If you are indexing the web pages from local computer, and want to make an online search engine for your website, you need to enter your domain name here, e.g., http://www.mtopsoft.com in this field. For tutorial on this, please refer to How to index from local computer, and make an online search engine for websites?
• If you are indexing the web pages from local computer, and want to make a search engine for CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, please refer to the tutorial: How to make an offline search engine for CD-ROM/DVD?