Portal Self Crawl

Help Needed Crawling the Portal with a WWW crawler
Posted: Mar 9, 2010 9:34 AM in response to: Robert Herrera Edit Reply
I have created a portal self crawl. I did this by creating a experience defination without sso and a cralwer user with a snapshot query portlet and having direct url entry in web cralwer with starting page as the login page action with userid, password and other form elements as parameters and values. It logs in to the home page and finds the snapshot query portlet and all pages URL in the snapshot query. It starts to crawl but it seems it hits the login page instead of the actual community page.
It loks like in a normal browser based scenario, if i log into the portal and then delete al my cookies i too get a login page if i click any sommunity page url. The cookie is jsessionid it seems. This is true for a sso disabled exp def as well.
can you please tell me the settings required in the www content source to login to portal and turn a self crawl to crawl all portal pages and make them full text indexed with correct names. I tried severl settings and impersonating user but could not be successful.
PS currenlty cralwer saves all pages with Login Page (1)(2)3)...... instaed of the actual page name. i guess it takes the name from the <title> tag. but since it is not able to get into the pages and hits the login page it just saves it by that name

Hello Soni!
Please review and follow the steps mentioned here:
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https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-110636
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