Create a virtual website under linux that includes all of the 4,000 pages and have them indexed using linux...
The IT people can then be asked to show some actual skill and set up the search as a web service for your asp pages to use. Since they are making the rules which don't allow you to use index server, something done out of spite for windows and MS, let them eat their own dog food and set up the service on linux. tom mallard seattle -----Original Message----- From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:58 AM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: ASP search engine Only a small part of the site is ASP/DB driven, just a couple of pages, and the search for that part has already been developed. but there are over 4000 static HTML pages. ideally, i would make a crawler, but my limited knowledge of Regexp and limited time leaves me little possibilities. the only alternative would be to buy a commercial crawler/search engine, but even then, i'm limited by the fact that i can't install any component/software on the server. Thanks Tim -----Message d'origine----- De : Michael Elfial [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy� : lundi 26 ao�t 2002 19:50 � : ActiveServerPages Objet : RE: ASP search engine Well, I'll ask one question that will possibly help. What you mean by search engine? Why asking - see this: Scenario 1: You have HTML and ASP pages, some ASP pages generate many views depending on the parameters. You want to index everything. How? Index server will not help unless your ASP pages are not too much and too stupid. No one knows which parameters should be treated as causing views from the mainstream of the site (that should be indexed) and which parameters cause results from form submission for example. Scenario2: All the site is ASP - you are generating it from a DB. You will be glad to have a search capability over certain information. And you will want the displayed results to point certain page types - for example product page. E.g. the search resolves to set of well defined resource types. And so on.... There is no universal search engine solution except something like Google (which is almost but not absolutely universal). So if you want universal solution you will need to spider your own site. If not - then the DB should be enough. Let me stop here. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:26 PM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: ASP search engine my hosting server has an indexing software for linux, but has not setup indexServer on the WIN2K server that we are using(don't ask why). so it realy has to be pur database/scripting solution. -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy� : lundi 26 ao�t 2002 18:11 � : ActiveServerPages Objet : RE: ASP search engine Have you looked into using IndexServer (which comes with IIS)? It is scriptable via ASP and works very well. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:17 PM To: ActiveServerPages Subject: ASP search engine Hi, i need to setup a search engine on are website, and i've been looking into some free scripts but none seem to have any indexing functionalities (you have to enter keywords yourself) if any of you have come across a good indexing/search script i would love to hear from you. Thanks very much Tim --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
