If you are to crawl a web site you will need to make sure you have the following points covered:
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Is the web site available from the Aspire machine?
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Has the web site any security access restriction?
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- The Aspire Server running the crawl must have access to the seed(s) URL (configured in the content source configuration).
- Check for any credentials needed to access the sites to be crawled. (Basic, Digest, HTTP forms and NTLM are supported)