Installing The 64bit Adobe iFilter with WSS 3.0 SP1.

I had a lot of trouble getting this to work as I couldn't find a definitive article on installing it with WSS. Some people were linking to an article for installing version 6 (a 32 bit version) and the other instructions were for version 9 but with MOSS - close but no cigar. So here's how I finally nailed it. Please email me with any comments, errors or omissions.

These instructions assume you have SharePoint installed in the default location and that you install the iFilter to the default location. If not change drives and paths accordingly. The iFilter installation needs to be done on each index server in a farm. The changes to the docicon.xml file will need to be done on each front-end web server. If you have a single server installation just do all of it on your single server.

Click Start

Point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services.

Right-click IIS Admin Service, and then click Stop.

Go to http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 and download the zip file and extract the msi to a suitable location

Run the PDFFilter64installer.msi setup program to install the filter on the servers running the WSS spsearch search service.

The install program should have registered the iFilter DLL but just to be certain register it manually:

Start a command window as an Administrator.

Type regsvr32.exe "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms\bin\PDFFilter.dll" and press ENTER

You should receive a message that states that the operation was successful, click OK.

Restart the SharePoint search service:

Type net stop spsearch and press ENTER

Type net start spsearch and press ENTER

Add the following entry and set the value to pdf:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\<GUID>\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList\38

Note: If you have previously added different file extensions and key 38 is taken, simply chose the next highest number for the key id.

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\GUID\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.

Type 38, and then press ENTER.

Right-click the registry entry that you created, and then click Modify.

In the Value data box, type pdf, and then click OK.

Note These registry subkeys and the values that they contain are created when you installed the Adobe PDF IFilter on the server.

o    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf

This registry subkey must contain the following registry entry:

§  Name: Default
Type: REG_MULTI_SZ
Data: {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

 

o    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf

This registry subkey must contain the following registry entries:

§  Name: Default
Type: REG_SZ
Data: (value not set)

§  Name: Extension
Type: REG_SZ
Data: pdf

§  Name: FileTypeBucket
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x00000001 (1)

§  Name: MimeTypes
Type: REG_SZ
Data: application/pdf

 

In order to have an appropriate icon displayed by your pdf's in SharePoint do the following:

Copy the .gif file that you want to use for the icon to the following folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images

Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .pdf extension.

Start Notepad, and then open the Docicon.xml file.

The Docicon.xml file is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml

Add an entry for the .pdf extension. For example, add a line that is similar to the following to the Docicon.xml file, where NameofIconFile is the name of the .gif file:

<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="NameofIconFile"/>

On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.

Click Start

Point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services.

Right-click IIS Admin Service, and then click Start.

Type CD C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN and press ENTER

Type stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart and press ENTER.

You should get the message Operation completed successfully.

Type EXIT, and then press ENTER to exit the command prompt.

Do a test search and bingo - pdf's are indexed!