Following links to an external site

[Erik]

Hi Guys,

My customer's site is on v7 and it was working like a charm...
Until they decided to move their PDFs to an external site, ipaper
The PDF files have been converted to flipbooks

Here is an example URL:
https://viewer.ipaper.io/domtar/ariv...-eng/?page=1#/
https://viewer.ipaper.io/domtar/ariv...-list/?page=12


As can be seen, the URLs to these flipbooks don't have an extension, so I ticked Zoom's 'Scan file with no extensions' in the Scan options

I have read a few topics about following to external sites and tried to setup like the following topic:
https://www.zoomsearchengine.com/for...te-1-link-deep
but without any success:
Could not download file: http://ariva.ca/fr/;https://viewer.i.../domtar/ariva/ (400 HTTP Error)

I aslo tried setting up a second starting point, but am getting similar results:
Could not download file: https://viewer.ipaper.io/domtar/ariva/ (File not found)

While it is possible to setup a branded domain on iPaper, my customer would have to redo all the linking to his flipbooks.
This would be a backup plan

How can I correctly setup the Zoom indexer to follow the links to the ipaper site ?

Thanks,
Erik

[Ray]

I have read a few topics about following to external sites and tried to setup like the following topic:
https://www.zoomsearchengine.com/for...te-1-link-deep
but without any success:
Could not download file: http://ariva.ca/fr/;https://viewer.i.../domtar/ariva/ (400 HTTP Error)

You have entered the suggested Base URL as your Start Spider URL so this won't work.

The Base URL is modified by clicking on the "More" button next to Start Spider URL (which should be simply "http://ariva.ca/fr/") and then "Edit"
And then you modify the Base URL field to:

http://ariva.ca/fr;https://viewer.ipaper.io/domtar/ariva/

I aslo tried setting up a second starting point, but am getting similar results:
Could not download file: https://viewer.ipaper.io/domtar/ariva/ (File not found)

This is not a valid URL (if you go to the URL in your browser you will get a 404 error). So this approach will not work.

Let us know how you go with the above.

[Erik]

Thanks Ray, it works perfectly well now, I can see ipaper results in my search