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 the local portal site. We can use that setup as is, or we can modify it as required. We can also set up our own search collection for search on portal sites. The following sections describe all of these options.
Security notes:
- We can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on your local portal installation. For security reasons, we cannot crawl secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.
- When creating 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 xmlaccess.sh before enabling search on the secured portal site. For details about how to do this, refer to Encrypting sensitive data.
- 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 on that user who is searching. This applies to the following resources: portal pages, portlets, and WCM 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.
- Enable search on a secured portal site with the default configuration
By modifying some of the settings, we can use the default search collection to configure search of a secured portal site.- Customize the search collection for secured portal pages
Set up our own customized search collection for searching a secured portal site.
Parent: Search the local portal
Related:
Configure a crawler to search the local portal site
Crawl a multilingual portal site
Encrypting sensitive data