Trouble with Search Page results

[Fettingm]

Here's the problem that I've been facing for the past 3-4
weeks. The site that I have been hired to maintain
requires a weekly update on Sun and then two more updates
during the week: one on Mon night and another on Wed
night. I also archive the previous weeks articles into a
archive folder. A link to the archive will then be created
when I begin the next weeks articles.

It seems that during the week the search results will
function as they should, but after I do an update (and
also make a copy into the archive folder), the search
functions are no longer functioning. I will then have to
go the hosting service and have them reinstall the fp
extensions resulting with me having to republish the whole
site. Currently the search page doesn't work and the
hosting site is scheduled to reapply the extensions this
Sat. (8 Nov,03)

This never seemed to be a problem from Mar of 2003 up to
Sept 2003 but started giving me problems in Oct. I cannot
think of anything that I might have done out of the
ordinary. I initially republish (on Sun) 8 pages and I
don't even touch the search page. Again, it had worked
previously. The template is a standard template that came
with Frontpage. I am using Office XP with Frontpage 2002.
The website is: www.thepoliticaljunkies.net.

Is there some limitations concerning archives that I have
overlooked? I do not FTP the files, only publish. And I
only publish changed pages. Is this a hosting problem or a
user (me) problem? I have already gone the route of
Tools/Recalulate hyperlinks and that hasn't worked either.
I searched various sites and found a similar problem and
the recommendation was to "Check out the <index> <\index>
command", but I don't know what's being referred to (I'd
be considered an Advanced Beginner-Intermediate in
understanding FP)

Any help would sure be appreciated!!

Thanks in advance.

Michael

 

[AMC]

Michael

I would lean toward this being an issue on the hosting side. Any issues I have ever had with the search function can be addressed with Catalog service. My understanding of the search is that it uses the Catalog Service First in IIS/Win2K and then if that is not present it uses files that are generated when you create the files. If the host has it in a windows environment ask them to make a catalog, all your issues will go away

Ada


----- Fettingm wrote: ----

Here's the problem that I've been facing for the past 3-4
weeks. The site that I have been hired to maintain
requires a weekly update on Sun and then two more updates
during the week: one on Mon night and another on Wed
night. I also archive the previous weeks articles into a
archive folder. A link to the archive will then be created
when I begin the next weeks articles.

It seems that during the week the search results will
function as they should, but after I do an update (and
also make a copy into the archive folder), the search
functions are no longer functioning. I will then have to
go the hosting service and have them reinstall the fp
extensions resulting with me having to republish the whole
site. Currently the search page doesn't work and the
hosting site is scheduled to reapply the extensions this
Sat. (8 Nov,03

This never seemed to be a problem from Mar of 2003 up to
Sept 2003 but started giving me problems in Oct. I cannot
think of anything that I might have done out of the
ordinary. I initially republish (on Sun) 8 pages and I
don't even touch the search page. Again, it had worked
previously. The template is a standard template that came
with Frontpage. I am using Office XP with Frontpage 2002.
The website is: www.thepoliticaljunkies.net.

Is there some limitations concerning archives that I have
overlooked? I do not FTP the files, only publish. And I
only publish changed pages. Is this a hosting problem or a
user (me) problem? I have already gone the route of
Tools/Recalulate hyperlinks and that hasn't worked either.
I searched various sites and found a similar problem and
the recommendation was to "Check out the <index><\index>
command", but I don't know what's being referred to (I'd
be considered an Advanced Beginner-Intermediate in
understanding FP

Any help would sure be appreciated!!

Thanks in advance.

Michae