We are migrating an asp.net (not sure which version is it..either 1 or 2) website from MS Server 2003 to MS server 2008 R2.
The website was using an indexing service to display links of .pdf files located in the server. These links which were displayed are virtual links (http://server/a/b/file) which we get from the vPath property while scanning the catalog created in the Windows Indexing Service using SQL.
Now, while migrating, we are facing the below issues: -
- I have set up a Windows Search service on Windows 2008 R2 Server to search for these pdf files. I am able to search for the files successfully (Indexed physical location of the site on the server), but its generating a FTP link (something like file:E:/... (whereever the file is stored in the local machine) )which does not let the user open the file (since it searches E: of the client system and the files are supposed to be on the server). How should we get this fixed?
- Also, i read that indexing IIS Websites is not possible with IIS version 7 and beyond because of the design changes which were done in IIS 7. So, am I getting the file system path because I have indexed the E: of the server and not the website hosted on it?
This might be a bit confusing. Please feel free if you need me to paraphrase it. :)