Frontpage Search Engine, IIS, & subwebs

[Sarah]

Does Frontpage's Search Engine use IIS's catalogs when
doing a search or does it create its own? If so, where
are they located? How does FP's search engine work with a
subweb? Is "recalculating hyperlinks" the only way to
refresh these FP search engine tables?

 

[Vijay R Gangolli [MSFT]]

Hi Sarah,

FP uses WAIS or Index server for searching. It can be configured for either
as per http://support.microsoft.com/?id=201524. Removing the noindexserver
key in the registry will make it use Index Server catalogs. If its WAIS
engine, then recalculate is the way to go.

Regards,
Vijay

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| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| From: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| Sender: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| Subject: Frontpage Search Engine, IIS, & subwebs
| Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:39:33 -0800
|
| Does Frontpage's Search Engine use IIS's catalogs when
| doing a search or does it create its own? If so, where
| are they located? How does FP's search engine work with a
| subweb? Is "recalculating hyperlinks" the only way to
| refresh these FP search engine tables?
|

 

[Sarah]

Thanks. There is a web author of a subweb who has
administer rights to their web, but when they
run "recalculate hyperlinks" the pages do not update.
When I "recalculate" and I have administer rights to the
entire web and local drive it works. Does the web author
require rights on a particular folder? Also, do you know
how FP builds its search pool, what is it based on, file
name, title, etc.?

-Sarah

 

[Vijay R Gangolli [MSFT]]

Hi Sarah,

Check if the user has permissions on _vti_text folder.

Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) was commonly used in the early days of
the Web to provide searching capabilities for Web sites. WAIS is no longer
a commercial product, and does not have the speed, extensibility,
integration, and support of Index Server. Hence from Windows 2003 WAIS has
been discontinued.

Regards,
Vijay

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| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| From: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| Sender: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| References: <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
| Subject: RE: Frontpage Search Engine, IIS, & subwebs
| Thanks. There is a web author of a subweb who has
| administer rights to their web, but when they
| run "recalculate hyperlinks" the pages do not update.
| When I "recalculate" and I have administer rights to the
| entire web and local drive it works. Does the web author
| require rights on a particular folder? Also, do you know
| how FP builds its search pool, what is it based on, file
| name, title, etc.?
|
| -Sarah
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hi Sarah,
| >
| >FP uses WAIS or Index server for searching. It can be
| configured for either
| >as per http://support.microsoft.com/?id=201524. Removing
| the noindexserver
| >key in the registry will make it use Index Server
| catalogs. If its WAIS
| >engine, then recalculate is the way to go.
| >
| >Regards,
| >Vijay
| >
| >Disclaimer: This posting is provided "as is" with no
| warranties and confers
| >no rights
| >
| >--------------------
| >| Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
| >| From: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| >| Sender: "Sarah" <[email protected]>
| >| Subject: Frontpage Search Engine, IIS, & subwebs
| >| Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:39:33 -0800
| >|
| >| Does Frontpage's Search Engine use IIS's catalogs when
| >| doing a search or does it create its own? If so, where
| >| are they located? How does FP's search engine work
| with a
| >| subweb? Is "recalculating hyperlinks" the only way to
| >| refresh these FP search engine tables?
| >|
| >
| >.
| >
|