Welcome to the Phantom online documentation. This includes an HTML version of
both the Phantom Quick Start and Reference Guides. The Quick Start guide includes
descriptive information about how to use various features and common site
integration tasks. The Reference Guide lists each command and briefly describes
its function, and has more technical details about the inner workings of Phantom.
The Table of Contents for each guide is below, in addition to a search form. The search form will perform a Phantom search of
the entire documentation.
If you cannot find what you need here, try visiting the Phantom Frequently Asked Questions
list.
To contact AKTIV Technical Support: Send an e-mail message with a brief
description of your problem, along with configuration information for your
system, to "phantom@aktiv.com".
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Quick Start Contents
- Legal Stuff
- Welcome to Phantom
- Introduction
- An Overview of Phantom
- About this Guide
- If you need Help
- Phantom for Macintosh
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Phantom for Windows
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Getting Started
- Step 1: Starting Phantom
- Step 2: Creating a Session
- Step 3: Running the Robot
- Step 4: Searching the Site
- Searching
- Basic Searches
- Boolean Searches
- Number of Results Returned
- Searching in Sessions
- Detailed Results
- Phonetic Searching
- Begins With Searching
- What's New Searching
- Searching HTML Tags
- Search Results
- Finding Similar Pages
- Search Tips
- Numbers
- Noise Words
- Punctuation
- Accented Characters
- Updating Session Indexes
- Maintaining the Phantom Data File
- Keyword CleaningÐ Removing Deleted Pages
- Compacting the Data File with 4D Tools
- Repairing Damaged Data Files with 4D Tools
- Advanced Crawling
- Session Options
- Starting Points
- Web Server Root Folder
- Allow Crawl On These Paths
- Disallow Crawl On These Paths
- Hit Interval
- Maximum Folder Depth
- Copy File to "Downloads" Folder
- Include Graphics And Other Binaries
- Disable Indexing
- Do Not Index Words With Numbers
- Index HTML Comments in Pages
- Make All Servers Found In Sub-Domain Valid
- Include URLs Outside Directory Of Start URLs
- Follow Links
- On Local File System Crawl, Scan Directory for Pages
- On Local File System Crawl, use File Extensions List
- Use Proxy Server
- Troubleshooting Crawls
- Troubleshooting With the Page Browser
- Starting Points in a Sub-Folder
- Improper Comments
- Redirects
- Image Maps
- Sites Served From Multiple Servers
- Unrecognized File Extensions
- PDF Documents
- Customizing Search and Results Pages
- Customizing the Default Header and Footer
- Custom Header and Footer Example
- Customizing the Default Search Page
- Customizing the Results Page
- Customizing the Agents Page
- Custom Search Pages
- Why Make Custom Search Pages?
- Creating a Custom Search Page
- Custom Search Form Samples
- Custom Search Form Example
- Using Multiple Sessions
- Custom Session Header and Footer
- Custom Results and Agent Page Format
- Creating Multiple Virtual Search Engines
- Phantom Agents
- Advertisers
- Web Server or CGI Operation
- Site Mirroring
- Making a Site Map
Reference Guide Contents
- Legal Stuff
- Welcome to Phantom
- About this Guide
- If you need Help
- Robot Operation
- How Phantom Crawls and Indexes
- Using the Robot Exclusion Standard
- Rules of the Robot
- The Four Laws of Web Robotics
- The Six Commandments for Robot Operators
- Administration
- Administration: Menu Commands
- Administration Home Page
- About
- Help
- Lists
- Info
- Utilities
- Search
- Sessions
- New Session Page
- Session Name
- Starting Points
- Web Starting Points
- Local File Starting Points
- Deleting Starting Points
- Web Server Root Folder
- Allow crawl on these paths
- Disallow crawl on these paths
- Hit Interval
- Maximum folder depth
- Copy files to "Downloads" folder
- Include graphics and other binaries
- Disable indexing
- Do not index words with numbers
- Make all servers found in subdomain valid
- Include URLs outside directory of start URLs
- Follow links
- On Local File System Crawl, Scan Directory for Pages
- On local file system crawl, use file extensions list
- Use proxy server (from general preferences)
- Authentication
- Session Details Page
- Deleting Sessions
- Session Comments
- Session Header, Footer and Templates
- Reports
- Site Map
- Updating Sessions
- Session Timer
- Session Filters
- Page Browser
- Server Status
- Preferences
- General Preferences
- Robot Preferences
- Web Server Preferences
- Header and Footer Preferences
- Forms Preferences
- Result Information Preferences
- Result Data Preferences
- Agent Data Preferences
- Agents
- How Phantom Executes Agents
- Customizing the Agent List Page
- Administration Users
- Advertisers
- Custom Search and Agent Forms
- Search and Agent Links
- Search Form Fields
- Agent Form Fields
- Reference Lists
- Page Result Codes
- Substitution Tags
- Substitution Tags by Code Name
- Advanced Customization
- User Interface Strings
- Relevance Ranking
- Binary File Types List
- Directory File Name
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