This is to inform you that Texas Tech University is implementing an upgrade to the Google Search Appliance to a newer more secure server. The code that interacts with the new appliance is slightly different than is required on the existing system. Complete instructions necessary for the code upgrade are detailed below. If you have any other questions or concerns, please send an email to TOSM Server Support.

**To verify if this notification affects your site, please run a search on your website files for GOOGLE.ACS.TTU.EDU. If the search finds any files containing google.acs.ttu.edu then follow the scenario that best describes your situation.**

Scenario 1 - your site currently uses the new TTU Template for departmental websites - Example.

Please contact Carlene Van Stone for verification of necessary code-based changes.

Scenario 2 - your site currently uses a predefined subcollection to search only specified content - Example (Notice Only Results from the Senate Archives Site are returned)

OLD CODE

<td style="text-align: center; width: 400px">
        <form method="get" action="http://google.acs.ttu.edu/search">
            <p>
            <input type="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value="" />
            <input type="hidden" name="site" value="texas_tech" />
            <input type="hidden" name="client" value="texas_tech" />
            <input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="texas_tech" />
            <input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
            </p>
            <input type="hidden" name="restrict" value=" SUBCOLLECTION NAME" />
            <p><input type="submit" name="btnG" value="TTU Google Search" /></p>
        </form>

NEW CODE

<td style="text-align: center; width: 400px">
        <form method="get" action="http://google.ttu.edu/search">
            <p>
            <input type="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value="" />
            <input type="hidden" name="site" value="SUBCOLLECTION NAME" />
            <input type="hidden" name="client" value="texas_tech" />
            <input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="texas_tech" />
            <input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
            </p>
            <p><input type="submit" name="btnG" value="TTU Google Search" /></p>
        </form>

Additional Changes

• URL Change: OLD: http://Google.acs.ttu.edu NEW: http://Google.ttu.edu - google.acs.ttu.edu has been redirected to google.ttu.edu as of June 1st, 2006.
• SUB-COLLECTION: Old Code Restrict Values are now SITE Values. The default Site value is texas_tech, this returns search results for all of the TTU websites that are crawled and indexed with the Google Search Appliance.
• PROXYSTYLESHEET: Values can no longer be URL’s to an off appliance Style Sheet. They have to reside on the Google Appliance. The default value is: texas_tech, unless you have spoken with Carlene Van Stone or TOSM Server Support about a special configuration.
• RESTRICT Value: This entire line of code must be removed for the Appliance to serve results.

Once again, if you have any other questions or concerns, please email TOSM Server Support and we'll get back to you promptly.