How can I uninstall the Microsoft Server Extension files?

[Ayac]

I am creating a search engine using Microsoft Windows 2000, IIS5 with Indexing services. The bad thing is that the Frontpage Server Extension files (in directories like "_vti_cnf" and "_vti_log" etc.) are also shown up in the search results. Does anyone know how can I exclude them from Index Search or just uninstall the whole Frontpage garbage? Would it have any backdrops if I uninstall it?

Ayac

 

[palbano]

Ayac,

You should be able to configure the indexing service to skip folders begining with an underscore.

Good luck
-pete

 

[Guest_imported]

look in the Index Server news groups in the news server msnews.micrsoft.com
About every 3rd post at times has the code to do that. Some have worked for me, most have not. You also wan't to exclude *.asp and whatever non HTML files you have.

 

[Ayac]

Thanks for your reply! Well, it must be something to exclude specific directories, but it would be more helpful to know where and how I can exclude them...
Now I uninstalled the FrontPage Extensions, so it will not bug me anymore, but I faced with another problem, what (I guess) must be a hidden check box somewhere but I could not find it. So the thing is that when I pick a folder to index, the service index not just that folder, but the whole website. It adds the root folder in every case automatically with a different icon (yellow folder with a blue dot on it). If I delete them, the computer brings me a window with "CI Service - OK", and the search will not really work afterwards.
My search works good only if I indicate all the other other folders of the website as "Exclude from search", so it will search in that specific folder. Do you know how can I deal with this? I am pretty sure that should be a more elegant way of that (and I have 40 folders on the root level, so it would be a nightmare to exclude them one by one...)
Thanks for the tip Khannah, I will check the Index Server news group also on the Microsoft site!

Ayac