A total newbie question here - Correct base URL in offline mode

[dpinion]

Greetings, We recently purchased the Professional edition and I have been performing offline indexing of our website (Love the product BTW!). However, I wanted to be sure of this question before uploading to our website. I am concerned about what I need to do to ensure what I upload will work with the site as it does with my local files.

When I am in 'Offline Mode', does the BaseURL effect where the search starts from when uploaded to the web? I hope this is making sense. Basically right now I have BaseURL = http://localhost/

So when I upload the files, will they still work on the website?

Thanks for your patience with me..

[Ray]

No, using http://localhost/ as your base URL will not work when you upload the files to your website. Although, it might actually still work for you (and you only) when you visit the website!

The reason is that these are the links that are given to the end user who visits the website and clicks on your search results. The end-user's computer is going to try to access "localhost", which would be the end-user's computer, which is very unlikely to be running a web server, and most definitely would not have a copy of your website running!

The base URL should really be your live website's domain name and address, eg. http://www.mysite.com/

I hope that helps!

[dpinion]

Thanks for the response Ray. That's what I didn't understand about the BaseURL, I thought that if I assigned it to http://www.mysite.com that it would actually go out and try to index my website instead of my local copy. As you can see I am probably really confused..

[Ray]

In Offline Mode, the Base URL is only used to form the resultant links which will appear in the search results. It only serves the purpose of telling Zoom that a file indexed locally such as C:\MySitesFiles\blah.html will need to become http://www.mysite.com/blah.html when the search page is put online. So no, it won't cause Zoom to index the site on your web server. You would have to be in Spider Mode for that functionality.