Problem when Indexing in Spider mode

[ratripathi]

Hi,

I am trying to index my website divinewellness.com, but I am getting the following error "Check that the URL exists and satisfies the settings in the configuration window".
The URL i am giving for indexing is working properly if i am opening it in web browser.
URL I am giving: divinewellness.com
Please help me.


Thanks

[Ray]

Please check the Log tab, and make sure to enable the displaying of all messages.

You most likely have a Skipped message explaining what was skipped. When I tested this quickly I got this:

18:20:00 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://divinewellness.com/
18:20:00 - [DOWNLOAD] URL redirected to: http://www.divinewellness.com/ [thread #1]
18:20:00 - [SKIPPED] Skipping http://www.divinewellness.com/ (External site - does not match base URL)
18:20:07 - [ERROR] No files found to spider from http://divinewellness.com/
18:20:07 - Indexing failed

Because of your redirection, the base URL will not allow this by default. This is to prevent indexing across many sub-sites if they belong to the same domain name.

You can change this behaviour by changing the Base URL setting (see the Users Guide on how to specify multiple base URLs)

By the easiest way to address this would be to just use the same URL as you are redirecting to, that is, change your Start Spider URL to:
http://www.divinewellness.com/

This will also avoid all the issues with duplicate URLs and having some results go to the "www." domain and some without, etc.

[ratripathi]

In my website URL rewriting is used, that means Zoom will not work for my website? Every page URL has been rewritten so I cann't give redirected URL at the time of indexing.

[David]

Did you try what Ray suggested? It should solve your problem.

[ratripathi]

ya, but what i am saying that url rewriting has been used in the website, so i can not give redirected url

[David]

...so i can not give redirected url

I don't know what you are talking about. We already told you what your site is doing in the log above.

http://divinewellness.com/ redirects to http://www.divinewellness.com/

So as Ray says, the easiest way to address this would be to just use the same URL as you are redirecting to, that is, change your Start Spider URL to:
http://www.divinewellness.com/

[ratripathi]

yes I have tried this also, I have changed
http://divinewellness.com/ to http://www.divinewellness.com/
as my spider start URL. But its giving the same error message as
"Check that the URL exists and satisfies the settings in the configuration window"

[David]

Works fine for me. Can you post your log.

Here is the start of the log I get,
21:59:26 - Spider from: http://www.divinewellness.com/
21:59:26 - Web site URL: http://www.divinewellness.com/
21:59:26 - Estimated RAM required during index process: 125212 KB
21:59:27 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading robots.txt file found at http://www.divinewellness.com/robots.txt
21:59:28 - Initiating HTTP session (thread #1) ...
21:59:28 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/
21:59:31 - Initiating HTTP session (thread #2) ...
21:59:32 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/index.aspx
21:59:32 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/Register.aspx
21:59:32 - [INDEXED] Indexing http://www.divinewellness.com/
21:59:34 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/Yoga-Section/1/Yoga.htm
21:59:34 - [INDEXED] Indexing http://www.divinewellness.com/index.aspx
21:59:37 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/yoga-category/1/introduction-to-yoga.htm
21:59:37 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/yoga-category/129/philosophy-of-yoga.htm
21:59:37 - [INDEXED] Indexing http://www.divinewellness.com/Register.aspx
21:59:38 - [INDEXED] Indexing http://www.divinewellness.com/Yoga-Section/1/Yoga.htm

[ratripathi]

Here is my log

16:20:08 - Start indexing (spider mode) at Tue Oct 19 16:20:07 2010
16:20:16 - [ERROR] No files found to spider from http://www.divinewellness.com/
16:20:54 - Start indexing (spider mode) at Tue Oct 19 16:20:54 2010
16:20:58 - [ERROR] No files found to spider from http://www.divinewellness.com/
16:42:42 - Start indexing (spider mode) at Tue Oct 19 16:42:42 2010
16:42:46 - [ERROR] No files found to spider from http://www.divinewellness.com/

[David]

I think you have only posted a very small portion of the log. Can you click on the "Show all" button in the log window and see if you see more details. You can then right click in the log window to Copy / Paste the log file.

[ratripathi]

Here is my complete log after I clicked show all


11:19:26 - Start indexing (spider mode) at Wed Oct 20 11:19:26 2010
11:19:26 - Maximum number of words: 15000
11:19:26 - Maximum number of files: 50
11:19:26 - Will scan files with extensions
11:19:26 - .htm
11:19:26 - .html
11:19:26 - .txt
11:19:26 - .php
11:19:26 - .asp
11:19:26 - .cgi
11:19:26 - .aspx
11:19:26 - .pl
11:19:26 - .php3
11:19:26 - Spider from: http://www.divinewellness.com/
11:19:26 - Web site URL: http://www.divinewellness.com/
11:19:26 - Estimated RAM required during index process: 5670 KB
11:19:27 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading robots.txt file found at http://www.divinewellness.com/robots.txt
11:19:27 - Initiating HTTP session (thread #1) ...
11:19:27 - DL Thread #1, got URL (http://www.divinewellness.com/) off queue
11:19:27 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/ (101454 bytes)
11:19:29 - [WARNING] Could not download file: http://www.divinewellness.com/ (File size limit exceeded)
11:19:29 - Initiating HTTP session (thread #2) ...
11:19:30 - [ERROR] No files found to spider from http://www.divinewellness.com/
11:19:30 - Indexing failed
11:19:30 - Waiting for threads to finish ...
11:19:30 - Cleaning up memory used for index data... please wait.
11:19:30 - Finished cleaning up memory.

[Ray]

Did you see the red Warning message?

11:19:27 - [DOWNLOAD] Downloading file http://www.divinewellness.com/ (101454 bytes)
11:19:29 - [WARNING] Could not download file: http://www.divinewellness.com/ (File size limit exceeded)

This indicates that the file is over the max file size limit. This is specified under "Configure"->"Limits" in the Professional and Enterprise Edition. Zoom cannot continue if the first page cannot be indexed.

If you are using the Free Edition, you cannot index pages which are over 100,000 bytes in size (each).

If you have another page on the site which is smaller and contains links to the rest of your site, you may get further with using it as the start URL. But it still means alot of the other pages on your site will be skipped.

On closer inspection, your webpages are larger than most sites because you have embedded a 45KB VIEWSTATE on every page.

This would not be an issue with the registered editions of the software.

More information on the editions here:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/editions.html