wss making the "sites" dir viewable searchable.
question about sharepoint "sites"
So we have our sharepoints server url:
sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/<subsite>/defaults.aspx
There are a whole bunch of sub sites under:
sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/
but when i point IE to
sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com/sites/
I get a 404.
so my question is this. my boss wants to be able to search all the subsites under <sites> dir
in order to do that I am assuming I need to get this root Sites dir to be viewable or searchable?
Any ideas?
-wss newbie!!
/sites/ is a managed path. Kind of like a virtual directory that allows you to create separate site collections underneath your portal. It is completely normal for you not to be able to browse to it.
Have you considered using the site directory to be able to have a list of all of the sites? You do have to manually populate the site directory but as you do this you can assign metadata to all of the various sites.
If you just want to do a one time audit of all of the site collections that live under /sites you can do this using stsadm.exe located at c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\bin. I don't have it in front of me right now but I think the command you want is stsadm.exe -o enumsites -url http://sharepoint.corp.<companyname>.com
Hope this helps
Shane - SharePoint Help
