FP98: Search Does Not Return Any Articles in Discussion Web

When searching for articles in a discussion web, no articles are returned.

This behavior occurs on a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 server running Microsoft Index Server.

When you create a discussion web on a server running Index Server, the FrontPage Server Extensions will use Index Server instead of the FreeWAIS search engine included with the FrontPage Server Extensions.

FrontPage creates an Internet Data Query (.idq) file in the _vti_bin directory for each page that contains a Search Form component. This file contains information on which catalog file Index Server should use and which folders Index Server should not search. The .idq file that FrontPage creates restricts searching to folders beginning with an underscore (_) character.

Because articles in a discussion web are contained in the _discX folder, where _discX is the name of your discussion Web, the articles are not searched.

To resolve this issue, you can install the updated version of the FrontPage Server Extensions. For more information about obtaining and installing the FrontPage Server Extensions, please see the following Microsoft web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa278914(office.10).aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa278914(office.10).aspx)

NOTE: You may need to recalculate hyperlinks after you install the new version of the FrontPage Server Extensions. Also, you may need to stop and restart the Index Server Service so Index Server will re-build your catalog files.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected the FrontPage Server Extensions version 3.0.2.1330.

For additional information about the FrontPage Server Extensions, please see the following Microsoft web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140165(office.10).aspx (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140165(office.10).aspx)

For information about using FrontPage with Microsoft Index Server, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

166357  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/166357/EN-US/ ) TITLE: FP: How to Use FrontPage with Microsoft Index Server