Searching static webpage text w/out db

trying to determin the best way to do this.

[kevin_m]

I have in the past generally used a database solution to provide searching capabilites for clients. I recently started working on a smaller site that only needs to have one folder of pages searched. I have seen a tutotial on how to search static pages, but I can not for the life of me get the code to work. I was wondering if any one has implemented this or has any suggestions.

There hosting enviroment is really simple and i would like to keep it that way, but I can run asp scripts.

[bmcgee]

I assume since you can run ASP scripts, you are on a Windows box? or are you running an ASP emulator on Unix?

If you are running Windows, why not just use MS Index Server? It automatically indexes all pages, even as you add new pages. You use a simply querying language, it and gives back your results to you for you do display however you would like.

It may not install by default, but it should be with the server CDs.

[kevin_m]

I was just looking at that, but I don't have any way of accessing the servers to set that up. I have accounts set up with offsite data centers.

I may be misunderstanding you though, I just started reading about that.

[bmcgee]

I'm not sure of your situation and whether you have any control over the servers or whether you have a contact that has that control.

I would check with whoever runs the server (even if it is an ISP) and see if MS Index Server is on them already. If so, you just need a "Catalog" started (I think that is the term, it's been a few years since I used it) for your site.

If it is not installed on the server, I would ask them and see if it can be installed, since it is actually a part of NT Server (and presumably Win 2K Server). It's nothing that needs to be purchased, it's just basically a "feature" that doesn't get installed by default.

Hope that helps, stickymail me if you have more questions about getting it set up or running.

[sun818]

This is what you want [webwizguide.com]. Its free and performs a full search on folders you specify. You can also limit what file extensions you want searched.