Configure search on a secured portal site

 

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For search on secured portal sites Portal Search provides a pre-configured default setup. We can use that setup as is, or we can modify it as required. We can also set up your own search collection for search on portal sites.

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

  2. For enabling search on secured portal sites we need to enter sensitive data, such as a user ID and password for the crawler.

    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.

  3. When a user searches a secured portal, the resulting portal pages are filtered based on that user's access permissions.

    This security mechanism works only applied to search on portal sites. It does not work for documents from Web Content Management or Web sites. The portal cannot filter the resulting documents by portal security for these types of content source.

 

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Parent topic:

Search the local portal site