Index Server 1.0/2.0 and Server-Side Includes

[Jeffrey Slifer]

We have a site on which we are using Index Server 1.0. Currently, it is all
static HTML pages. We are in the process of redesigning the site and are
interested in using server-side includes for redundant information. The
contents of these includes would need to be included by index server.
Searches would need to point to the file containing the include as opposed
to the include itself.

Is this possible with Index server 1 or 2? If so, how? Thanks for any
help. Please respond via e-mail.

Jeff Slifer
IGCN
je...@igcn.com

[Jeffrey Slifer]

[Scott Baugher]

I don't think it is possible. The problem is that IS 1.0 - 2.0 indexes the
physical documents. That is, it simply reads the documents from the drive and
indexes them. It doesn't request them through the web server (via http). Since
the web server is what actually includes the files (whether with ASP or SSI),
the included files are not indexed (though they can be indexed separately).

In order to do what you wanted, you would have to purchase another indexing
product like Alta Vista's that actually spiders the site and makes its requests
through the web server by following links. This would allow the web server to
include the files before passing the results to the spider for indexing. Hope
this helps you.