FP97: No Documents Found After Performing Search Query

When you perform a search, no results are returned and you may receive the following message:

This message may appear if any of the following are true:

• The files that contain the index information for the search component are corrupted or missing (for example, they were deleted or moved).
  
  -or-
• If you are publishing to a web that uses Microsoft Index Server, the catalog file does not exist.
  
  -or-
• You are searching for a word that is on the WAIS stop list.

To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods.

NOTE: You should try Method 1 first. If Method 1 does not resolve this behavior, use Method 2. If you are using Microsoft Index Server, use Method 3.

Method 1: Recalculate Links

1. Start FrontPage Explorer and open your Web.
2. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.
3. Rerun your search in a Web browser.
   
   NOTE: You may need to refresh or reload the page in the Web browser.

Method 2: Reset the Dependency Databases

To reset the dependency databases used by the WebBot Search Component, follow these steps:

1. In Windows Explorer, open the folder that contains your Web content. To determine where your content is stored, use the following table as a guide.
   
   NOTE: The folders listed in the table are the default folders created when you install FrontPage. If you configured your Web server to use a different content root, select that folder instead of the one listed in the table.

      Web Server               Folder
      ---------------------------------------------------------------
   
      FrontPage Personal Web Server      \FrontPage Webs\Content
      Microsoft Personal Web Server      \Webshare\Wwwroot
      Microsoft Internet Information Server  \InetPub\Wwwroot
   						

2. Open the folder that contained the deleted page.
3. Open the \_vti_pvt folder and delete the following two files:
   Deptodoc.btr
   Doctodep.btr
4. Open the \_vti_txt\default.wti folder. Delete the following files:
   All.cat
   All.dct
   All.doc
   All.fmt
   All.fn
   All.hl
   All.idx
   All.inv All.src
5. Switch to FrontPage Explorer.
6. On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Method 3: Create a Catalog File using Index Server

Set up Index Server with a catalog for the virtual server. For information about how to do this, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For additional information about search problems, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: