FP Search component

[Mike]

How do I keep the FP (2002) search component from searching certain folders.
For instance, my web has a Webalizer usage log analyzer folder and search
will often turn up a whole slew of usage logs that web visitors can view.
Not that I mind, but it clouds the issue when the search returns 12
different logs in the results.

 

[Steve Easton]

How is your web set up on the server when viewed in File Manager using the Web Masters Control
panel??
The reason I ask is that the webalizer logs are normally kept in a folder named tmp in a password
protected area above / outside the root of the web, and are not "normally" accessible from the root
folder containing the web.

Assuming an Apache/UNIX server, the root folder containing your web should be named: public_html

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[Ronx]

If the server supports subwebs, convert the webalizer folder into a subweb.
Open the online web in FrontPage, right-click and choose "Convert to web".
Check with your host that the conversion will not affect the Webalizer
program first.

 

[Mike]

I should have updated this post a bit before I reposted it (it got no
answers two weeks ago). I'll explain why shortly.

The folder was just a plain old folder called "Webalizer" that was below the
root, just like the "images" folder and others. I am on an Apache/UNIX
server btw. This folder was created automatically when I enabled Webalizer
in my host's control panel for this sort of thing so I'm not sure I could
have moved or renamed it.

Mine is just a "hobby" site of sorts, so I had no major need for Webalizer
and I disabled it and deleted that folder completely over a week ago.
However, my searches STILL return links to webalizer log files, though they
haven't existed for a week and clicking on those links returns a 404 error.

What does it take for Frontpage to rebuild its search index, if it even uses
that sort of thing?

mike

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Open the live/remote site directly in FP, then run Tools | Recalculate Hyperlinks.

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[Steve Easton]

If, when you enabled webalizer it created a folder inside your web "root," your host does *not* have
the server / webalizer program / control panel configured correctly.


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[Mike]

Open the live/remote site directly in FP, then run Tools | Recalculate

Hyperlinks.

Thanks, I'll do that right away.

 

[Mike]

If, when you enabled webalizer it created a folder inside your web "root,"

your host does *not* have
the server / webalizer program / control panel configured correctly.

I'll go on their support forum and give 'em hell.