FrontPage Restricted Folders Security

[Chris]

If you sent up a restricted directory in a website using
frontPage, can that information be accessed by search
engine spiders and other things?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

How did you set it up to be restricted?

 

[Guest]

I tried to follow Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
301954.

The issue I am having is that I used to be able to use the
search function in Frontpage 98 using my browser on a
stand alone machine. After upgrading to 2002, I receive a
run-time error when trying to search using my browser
stating that I have to publish to a server running the
extentions. I did try to publish a small amount of data
and the form did work, but the information I search is
confidential and I really don't want to publish to the web
unless I am absolutly sure it could not be accessed by
others.

Any help?

Thank you!

 

[Jim Buyens]

If the Web server is *not* running Microsoft Indexing
Service, then your Search page, the full-text database,
and the searchable documents are all in the same Web site,
and have the same security.

If the Web server *is* running Microsoft Indexing Service,
then the indexing service scans the searchable documents
as a system task, and keeps the full-text database in an
Indexing Service "catalog". Generally, there's one catalog
per Web server, and as a result, search pages in one Web
can access information from and about documents in other
Webs. In fact, search pages on one virtual server can
retrieve information from catalogs that pertain to other
virtual servers on the same computer.

Note that Indexing Service *won't* make the document
itself accessible. It might, however, display portions of
the documents that it saved while scanning them.

There *are* ways to use Indexing Service securely, even on
computers that host multiple virtual servers. However, you
would have to work with your host or system administrator
to set these up.

External search engines, which scan web site via HTTP,
obviously wouldn't pick up documents that are unavailable
by HTTP.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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