Re: Keyword Best Bets not working
From: SizzleMaster (larry_at_datasculpting.com)
Date: 12/15/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:23:26 -0800
This solved it (additional posting regarding this below).
At least I hope it's useful.. I'm open to critique of course. Perhaps this
is only working for me but I doubt it. I've been fiddling and have been
frustrated with this since beta.
As I said above, I've been trying to get this right for quite some time now.
This product is both awesome and extraordinarily frustrating to setup and
more specifically change (post setup) especially when you're going outside
the easiest setup model of one portal with SQL running on the same box for
internal to your org integrated authentication intranet access.
I ran into my latest issue with multiple forms of authentication today when
I wanted to begin populating my Keyword Best Bets. Everything at this point
was mostly running smoothly without error but for the life of me I couldn't
figure out why my new Keyword Best Bets weren't showing up in search results
even after completing a fresh Full Update to the main content indexes and
also given the fact that everything else seemed to be running swimmingly in
terms of the search. To make a long story short, it has to do with how I was
proportioning and setting the host header values for the various IIS website
virtual servers for Intranet (Integrated Authentication), Anonymous
(Internet Access) and Basic+SSL (secure Internet authenticated access).
It is critical that you set the host header entries correctly.
Say you have 2 portals and both portals need to be accessed internally using
integrated authentication, anonymous access, and SSL access. Don't think
that you can get away with; even if it's possible without errors, it isn't
as easy, using only 2 virtual server websites in IIS.
Here's the scenario example:
First, create 6 directories on your portal server. 3 each for both portal
sites:
d:\portal1.intranet1; d:\portal1.anonymous1.domain.com;
d:\portal1.secure1.domain.com; d:\portal2.intranet2;
d:\portal2.anonymous2.domain.com; d:\portal2.secure2.domain.com
Make sure that your hosts file and DNS settings allow for proper name
resolution internally and externally.
Next, create 6 separate IIS websites pointing to all 6 of the directories
above. Set each of their ports to port 80 and leave the IP setting for each
of them to (All unassigned). Microsoft doesn't support binding portals to a
specific address in IIS, let alone multiple ones! Set each of their host
headers to intranet1; anoymous1.domain.com; secure1.domain.com; intranet2;
anonymous2.domain.com; secure2.domain.com.
Finally, create the 2 portals pointing to the intranet addresses FIRST.
Next, proportion WSS on the anonymous and secure IIS websites pointing them
to their respective and existing proportioned intranet sites. IMPORTANT:
set their Application Pools to the MSSharePointAppPool (unless you have
specific reason(s)to have separate app pools).
Hope this helps in cutting down on GATHERER ERRORS.
"SizzleMaster" <larry@datasculpting.com> wrote in message
news:eu5GGYk4EHA.3820@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Is there something that I'm missing. I create a few keywords and then
> assign best bet URLs to those keywords and do a search of the keyword in
> the main search box at the top right hand corner of the portal and nothing
> is returned highlighted as a best bet.
>
> Do I need to re-crawl the indexes? Whether I do or do not, I've done so
> and that didn't improve the situation. The only thing I can guess might
> be causing this is that I have three IIS virtual servers pointing to the
> same portal, one for intranet, one for anonymous Internet, and the other
> for SSL basic authentication Internet and perhaps the gatherer is getting
> confused with this particular type of content? I really have no idea.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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