FP98: No Documents Found After Performing Search Query

ID: Q194047

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you perform a search, no results are returned and you may receive the following message:

No documents found. Please try again.

CAUSE

This message may appear if any of the following are true:

The files that contain the index information for the search component are corrupted or missing (for example, they were deleted or moved).

-or-

If you are publishing to a web that uses Microsoft Index Server, the catalog file does not exist.

-or-

You are searching for a word that is on the WAIS stop list.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this behavior, use one of the following methods.

NOTE: You should try Method 1 first. If Method 1 does not resolve this behavior, use Method 2. If you are using Microsoft Index Server, use Method 3.

Method 1: Recalculate Links

Start FrontPage Explorer and open your Web.

On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Rerun your search in a Web browser.

NOTE: You may need to refresh or reload the page in the Web browser.

Method 2: Reset the Dependency Databases

To reset the dependency databases used by the FrontPage Search Component, follow these steps:

In Windows Explorer, open the folder that contains your Web content. To determine where your content is stored, use the following table as a guide.

NOTE: The folders listed in the table are the default folders created when you install FrontPage. If you configured your Web server to use a different content root, select that folder instead of the one listed in the table.
```
      Web Server                              Folder
      ---------------------------------------------------------------

      FrontPage Personal Web Server           \FrontPage Webs\Content
      Microsoft Personal Web Server           \Webshare\Wwwroot
      Microsoft Internet Information Server   \InetPub\Wwwroot 
```

Open the folder that contained the deleted page.

Open the \_vti_pvt folder and delete the following two files:
```
      Deptodoc.btr
      Doctodep.btr 
```

Open the \_vti_txt\default.wti folder. Delete the following files:


      All.cat
      All.dct
      All.doc
      All.fmt
      All.fn
      All.hl
      All.idx
      All.inv
      All.src

Switch to FrontPage Explorer.

On the Tools menu, click Recalculate Hyperlinks.

Method 3: Create a Catalog File using Index Server

Set up Index Server with a catalog for the virtual server. For information about how to do this, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q183731 How to Index and Create a Catalog for a New Web Site

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about search problems, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194263 FP98: Deleted Pages from Web Show up in Search Results List

Q185543 FP98: No Documents Found Using FrontPage 98 & Index Server

Additional query words: WAIS


Keywords          : 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 30, 1999