Search engine problems

Michael Fraase Manila-Newbies@userland.com
Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:17:39 -0600


Hah! Solved my own problem. The solution is the Searching element in the
esotericSettings plugin:

	<http://www.wiredfool.com/esotericSettingsPlugin/about>

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Michael Fraase
ARTS & FARCES LLC
mfraase@farces.com
www.farces.com
PGP Fingerprint:
3D85 F3F4 9E65 4949 176A  260C CB47 190D C864 9A96

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fraase [mailto:mfraase@farces.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:02 PM
> To: 'manila-newbies@userland.com'
> Subject: RE: Search engine problems
> 
> 
> (Sorry if this is a double post--the first didn't have a 
> subject line, and I figured the server kicked it.)
> 
> I deleted the Index.root file.
> 
> Then I followed the instructions at:
> 
> 	<http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$80#3935>
> 
> Specifically, here's what I did:
> 
> 1. Opened manilaWebsites.root
> 2. Opened the website to index
> 3. Opened the #tools table
> 4. Selected New Script from the Table menu
> 5. Gave the script the name of initialIndex
> 6. Pasted in the script
> 7. Received a variety of script errors (too many parameters, 
> syntax error)
>    depending upon how I pasted the script in.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> > You could delete your index.root file and re-index your 
> sites. That's 
> > probably easiest.
> > 
> > -Brent
> 
> >> At 5:30 PM -0600 12/1/01, Michael Fraase wrote:
> >> I'm having problems with Frontier's search engine. While I was
> >> prototyping our sites, I had Frontier running on port 88. I got 
> >> everything working and changed Frontier to port 80 (that was 
> >> something of an ordeal in itself).
> >> 
> >> The problem, as you can imagine, is that all of the content pages
> >> were indexed when Frontier was running on port 88. All the search 
> >> engine results contain double references for each "hit" 
> (one for the 
> >> object when it was on port 88; and one for the object on port 80).
> >> 
> >> How can I get rid of the "hits" on port 88?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Michael Fraase
> ARTS & FARCES LLC
> mfraase@farces.com
> www.farces.com
> PGP Fingerprint:
> 3D85 F3F4 9E65 4949 176A  260C CB47 190D C864 9A96
>