| Q |
I can't search PDF files ! |
| A |
By default, Index Server can only search HTML,
Text and Microsoft Office files. To allow Index
Server to search PDF documents you need to install
a special filter (Adobe PDF IFilter) from Adobe.
This can be downloaded from the following location:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows
|
| Q |
My abstracts don't appear ! |
| A |
The Windows 2000, 2000 Pro, XP and Windows Server
2003 implementations of Index Server (Indexing Services)
don't generate abstracts by default. So, to set
this option you need to ensure that "Generate
Abstracts" is checked in your catalog properties
(see point 5 of my Index Server tutorial at the
link below):
http://www.simongibson.com/intranet/indexserv/
|
| Q |
My results don't contain the expected
documents!
Some documents are missing, why? |
| A |
The Indexing Service is quite intelligent when
searches are performed on documents contained on
the local machine. This means that it will only
display results that the user has the permissions
to view. People often find that documents are not
returned in the list of results when they should
be.
If your web site uses Anonymous Access, the account
that is used to query the Indexing Service is
IUSR_<machinename>. This account MUST have
access to all documents you are indexing.
If your web site uses Integrated Windows Authentication,
you can apply read permissions to all indexed
documents for the DOMAIN USERS group. Or, leave
the permissions as they are if you want to take
advantage of this Indexing Service feature.
When the Indexing Service is indexing documents
contained on another machine’s network share
it uses a single user account to access the documents.
In this case, the service will not check permissions.
|
| Q |
Does the folder with the SearchSimon ASPX
file have to be an "IIS application"? |
| A |
No, the folder does not need to be an IIS application.
If required, you can put the .dll in your site's
"bin" folder. However, you must also move
web.config to the root of your web site. All other
files can remain within a regular subfolder of your
choice. If you already have a web.config file in
the root of your site, you can copy the SearchSimon
web.config keys into this file.
|
| Q |
Links point to the full physical path of the document and not the UNC share |
| A |
To force the indexing service to use the appropriate UNC path instead of the physical path for local indexed documents, follow the steps in this tutorial:
http://www.simongibson.com/intranet/forcepathalias/ |
