Designing search.htm

Relative links in search.htm

It might be worth mentioning that search.htm is parsed by search.cgi which usually resides in the /cgi-bin/ directory of your Web server. When you open http://site-name/cgi-bin/search.cgi in your browser, all relative links are considered as relative to the /cgi-bin/ directory. Therefore, if you have a file system structure like

   /var/www/images/
   /var/www/html/
   /var/www/cgi-bin/

the correct relative link from search.cgi to the images in /images/ will be

<img src="../images/image.gif">

Adding a small Search form to the other pages of your site

To add a small search form to any of your pages, you can put the following code:

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="/cgi-bin/search.cgi">
  <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="q" VALUE="">
  <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Search!">
</FORM>