Microsoft KB Archive/256270

= How to Prevent Folders from Being Crawled =

Article ID: 256270

Article Last Modified on 3/10/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q256270



SYMPTOMS
When Site Server 3.0 Search does a file crawl, your search results may display FrontPage control files located in _vti folders. You may not want the information returned to your users.



CAUSE
When Search does a file crawl, it moves through the subdirectory tree under the start address and indexes the documents contained there. FrontPage creates _vti folders, along with several other FrontPage-only folders, under many folders in the Web.



RESOLUTION
To keep these folders from being indexed, perform the following steps:  Open the properties for the catalog. On the Sites tab, and add a new rule for the site you are crawling. If it is the local file system, then add a site for localhost. Select this new site, choose Properties, click Add, type the following, and then set it to Crawl:

d:\inetpub\wwwroot

 Click Add, type the following, and then set it to Avoid:

d:\inetpub\wwwroot\*_vti*\*



Both values should be modified for your local file system and the avoid should occur before the crawl. Index Server will then avoid any folders that start with _vti. Note that these steps can be used to exclude any folder type that you do not want to index.

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