Problem:
Environment: WSS 3.0, Microsoft Search Server Express 2008
The Search server is
crawling the contents properly and the search is working as expected. Suddenly,
search crawling stopped and the error in the Search log is
"This item could not be
crawled because the repository did not respond within the specified timeout
period. Try to crawl the repository at a later time, or increase the timeout
value on the Proxy and Timeout page in search administration. You might also
want to crawl this repository during off-peak usage times".
Solution:
I understood that the
error is due to the Proxy and checked the Proxy and Time Out settings in Search
Server Administration and it is 120 Seconds.
Then, removed the Proxy
Settings configured in the IE. Followed by an incremental crawl fixed this
issue and I didn’t see any errors after that.
Also, uncheck the option
in the IE “Automatically Detect Settings” (if it is checked).
Here is the link which
gave the complete solution for this issue:
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