Search Subwebs With FrontPage

Featured: Featured Stories | Picture Gallery

Bedpan Closet | Dogs - Lhasa Apso

Chat11.com Web Bible11.com MyBibleCenter.com

	The Bush Survival Guide - 250 Ways to Make It Through The NExt Four Years Without Misunderestimating the Dangers Ahead, and Other Subliminable Stategeries
Links: [50 State Center] Hillary's Secret War A People's History Of The United States

Search Subwebs With FrontPage

Subjects > ... > Web > FrontPage

One technique for helping FrontPage able to deal with a large websites is to organize it's webpages in folders, (or subdirectories), and then make some of it's folders into subwebs. This will allow the site to be updated into sections.

However, this technique also has some drawbacks:

• Updates to the share borders of the main, (or outer, or parent web), will not propogate to the subwebs. Any changes main to the borders of the main site will have to be manually moved to all the subwebs.
  • Solution: It is possible to use Apache Style server side includes in a subweb to pull in the content of the shared borders of the outer, or parent, web.
• Search does not search subwebs. This can be an advantage and a disadvantage.
  • Advantage: It is possible to hide a statistics directory, or other private directory of articles, from the global search by turning that directory into a subweb.
  • Advantage: You can put a FrontPage search page in a subweb, and this will only search the pages of that subweb.
  • Disadvantage: It is not possible to have a "search entire search page" using the FrontPage extensions. Immediately after turning some folders into subwebs, it might still be possible to use the main site page to search within all of the directories. But after the next recalculate, a search page on the main web will no longer search the subwebs. It will not be possible to use the "WAIS" indexing of FrontPage extensions on a Linux or Unix hosting platform to search the entire website.

A site hosted with FrontPage extensions under Linux, or Unix, relies on the WAIS (Wide Area Information Search) features of FrontPage extensions to handle the Search component.

One solution to this problem is possible if the hosting is under Windows 2003. On Windows 2003, the WAIS searching feature of FrontPage extensions is no longer available. Any site attempting to rely on the old WAIS searching features will likely not even display a searching box, but might instead just display the text [FrontPage Search Component]

Under IIS 6.0 with Windows 2003, all searching must be done in conjunction with Index Server. Index Server is not automatically available for each virtual site on a server, but must be configured manually via catalogs, and directories included in each catalog. To enable website search, each virtual site on a server should have it's own Catalog configured. When a catalog is configured to track the main folder of a site, it will automatically index that folder, and all subfolders. Index Server does not care if the folders are FrontPage subwebs.

Another possibility to use for searching your site is the [Google Free Site Search].

Check out [Facts About Trees]

Search for books about:

Bobsgear - Get A Free Enterrpise Wiki Space!
Review: The Bobsgear Project was started to develop a variety of Confluence plugins. This installation of the Confluence Enterprise wiki includes flexible attachments, many Confluence plugins, personal blogs, interesting articles, and more. Bobsgear already has spaces related to politics, art and photography wiki, technical issues wiki, ediscovery wiki, health, Christian theology and Sabbath School wiki, the bible, book reviews, and quotations. Bobsgear allows free signup, and invites anyone to create a free hosted Confluence wiki space.

NEW USERS CLICK HERE! for a quick introduction to Wiki.

Elapsed:1