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Microsoft Index Server is the content-indexing and searching solution for
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). It automatically creates an
index of all documents that are stored on your Web server to be called up
later by visitors to your site.
The following is a description of the files that Index Server uses when
executing a search.
HTML files
An HTML file is used to accept input into a Search form on a Web page.
This information is then submitted by the user and passed on to the query
(.idq) file.
IDQ files
An .idq file is used to process the query. The .idq file is a text file
that tells Index Server which areas of the server to search and where to
pass the results. This file must be created using the Structured Query
Language (SQL).
HTX files
An .htx file is used as the template for the results. This file formats the
results into an HTML file and returns the information to the user via the
browser.
When a Search form is placed into a page using FrontPage 98, and the page
is subsequently published to an IIS computer with Index Server installed,
FrontPage will use Index Server by default to run the search, rather than
the Free WAIS search engine that comes with FrontPage.
FrontPage 98 creates the necessary .idq file named Search.htm0.idq and
places it in the _vti_bin directory of the Web. It also creates the .htx
file and places it in the _derived directory of the Web. The parameters of
these files can be edited in the Search form properties in FrontPage
Editor.
The following list of options is available for FrontPage 98 in the Search
form properties. The list also includes a short description of what the
options do in regards to the Index Server files and the search performed.
To access the properties of a Search form, click inside the form to select
it, click
FrontPage Component Properties from the
Edit menu, and then
click the
Search Results tab to view the following options:
- Scope of Search: The scope of the search is
controlled by the Ciscope
entry in the .idq file. The Ciscope entry points to a virtual directory
on the Internet Information Server computer. The search will encompass
the virtual directory and all subfolders.
- Entire Web Site: If you choose this option, you will set the Ciscope
option of the .idq file to "/" causing the entire contents of the IIS
computer to be searched.
- This FrontPage Web: This option sets the Ciscope to
"/Subweb_name" causing the search to encompass that directory and
any subdirectories. (If this is used in the <root Web>, the scope
is set to "/" returning the same results as the Entire Web Site
option).
- Directory: This option can point to a virtual directory other than
the location of the Web that it is a part of. The entry will appear
as "Ciscope=/directory/."
- Maximum Records Per Page: This option sets the "Cimaxrecordsperpage"
entry in the .idq file. It controls how many hits are displayed on each
page of the results.
- Maximum Records Per Query: This option sets the
"Cimaxrecordsinresultset" entry in the .idq file. It limits how many
positive results are allowed before the search returns a page stating
that the search has returned too many hits.
The remaining options on the Search Results tab are for the "Cicolumns"
entry. This option is used to gather additional information about items
that have been found in the search. This information can include the
document author and the date modified. The following list describes what
is added to the "Cicolumns" entry of the .idq file:
- "Last time file was changed": Cicolumns =
write
- "Size in bytes": Cicolumns = size
- "Score (Closeness of match)": Cicolumns = rank
- "Author of Document": Cicolumns = docauthor
- "Comments": Cicolumns = doccomments
- "Document subject": Cicolumns = docsubject
- "Hit count": Cicolumns = hitcount
If you have Index Server installed with IIS and want to use the free WAIS
search engine used by FrontPage 98 instead of Index Server, you can do so
by editing the Frontpg.ini file. By default, the Frontpg.ini file is
located in the following directory:
-
C:\Winnt\Frontpg.ini (for Windows NT)
-
C:\Windows\Frontpg.ini (for Windows 95 and Windows 98)
For additional information about how to use this method, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
181204
Using FrontPage search engine instead of Microsoft Index Server
For more information about editing the settings in the Frontpg.ini file,
please refer to the FrontPage Server Extensions Resource Kit (SERK), which
is included with the complete installation of FrontPage 98.