Configure search on a secured portal site
For search on secured portal sites Portal Search provides a pre-configured default setup. For more information, go to Configure a crawler to search the local portal site. 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.
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, we must enter sensitive data. For example, a user ID and password for the crawler. This sensitive data is stored on the portal server in plain text unless you choose to encrypt it. To ensure encryption of this sensitive data when it is stored, update, and run the searchsecret.xml file with xmlaccess.sh before we enable search on the secured portal site. For information, refer to Encrypting sensitive data.
When users search a secured portal, the resulting portal pages or resources are filtered based on Portal Access Control. Portal Search filters the results according to the access permissions of the user who is searching. It 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 websites. The portal cannot filter the resulting documents by portal security for these types of content source.
See
- Enable search on a secured portal site with the default configuration
- Customize the search collection for secured portal pages
Parent Search the local portalRelated tasks:
Configure a crawler to search the local portal site
Encrypting sensitive data