Solved Indexing a website on vista ultimate 32bit

Hello everyone,
I am trying to find out if you can Index a website on Vista Ultimate 32bit, service pack 2, IIS7 using indexing services. I have a website set up and I have indexing services enabled. I have created a catalog and then tried to go to the properties of the catalog to click on the tracking tab and select the web site I want to index from the WWW server: dropdownlist but it will never stay selected.

I can select the web site in the WWW Server: dropdownlist and then click apply and then OK, but as soon as I go back in to properties to see if the website is still selected, it losses its setting and the WWW Server: dropdownlist has a blank value. I was under the impression that if you set the website you want to index in catalogs properties, tracking tab, that Indexing service would automatically add the virtual directory for my web site to the directories listed in the catalog that are to be indexed by Indexing Service.

This never happens. I have tried setting it and stopping the index service and restarting it but I can never get the value to stay set in the tracking tab, WWW Server: dropdownlist.

Can you index a website on Vista 32 ultimate hosted on IIS7. I can create a catalog and index regular directory path C:indexthis/mycontent/ without a problem but I need to index a web sites virtual path directory. Is there a way to add a virtual Path directory manually? Any help would be great, as I have been stuck on this for days.:(
 

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Okay here is the answer as to why.
Hi Scott,

As Syed mentioned, Index Services is still included as an optional role in Windows Server 2008. You cannot index Internet Information Services (IIS) Web sites in Windows Server 2008 because of the design changes that were made to IIS 7.0. The catalog that you use for the Indexing Service still has the Tracking tab. However, the catalog does not save any changes that you make to the WWW Server setting. To work around this issue, add the Web site folders to the catalogs in the Indexing Service snap-in as physical folders. Then, edit the scope registry entries for the folders. To make the scope return a virtual path, change the value from ,,5 to ,,3 .

For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
954822 How to install and configure the Indexing Service on a Windows Server 2008-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954822
Laura Zhang - MSFT
 

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