Configure search on a secured portal site

Crawl and searching secured portal sites may require some additional configuration.

For search on secured portal sites Portal Search provides a pre-configured default setup. For more information about this refer to Configure a crawler to search local portal site. You can use that setup as is, or you can modify it as required. You can also set up own search collection for search on portal sites. The following sections describe all of these options.
Security notes:

  1. You can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on local portal installation. For security reasons, you cannot crawl secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.

  2. When you create a content source for enabling search on a secured portal site, you need to enter sensitive data, such as a user ID and password for the crawler. This sensitive data is stored on the portal server hard drive in plain text unless you choose to encrypt it. To ensure encryption of this sensitive data when it is stored, update and run the file searchsecret.xml using the XML configuration interface before enabling search on the secured portal site. For details about how to do this, refer to Encrypting sensitive data.

  3. When users search a secured portal, the resulting portal pages or resources are filtered based on Portal Access Control. This way Portal Search filters the results according to the access permissions of that user who is searching. This applies to the following resources: portal pages, portlets, and Web Content Manager content. Portal Search does not provide security filtering for other HTTP accessible information, such as secured Web sites. The portal cannot filter the resulting documents by portal security for these types of content source.


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Search local portal site


Related tasks


Configure a crawler to search local portal site
Crawl a multilingual portal site
Create or resetting the portal site collection
Encrypting sensitive data

 


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