CMS inside CMS - Search box for all

[gamache]

I do a web site for a school district and I installed the CMS. (I would give you an example, but it is an Intranet site)
I have other departments which I also installed the CMS inside the home CMS.
I had to do this so I could set up individual permissions for each department.

My problem is this:
The default search that CMS comes with, only searches within the CMS pages that are hooked to it.
So the other CMS department website are not included in the search because the pages link to another CMS.
Make sense?

I need to find a search box that will search my WHOLE website.

Any good ideas?
Any good code?

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

I would put some Lucene on the main site.

Pierre M.

[alby]

I do a web site for a school district and I installed the CMS. (I would give you an example, but it is an Intranet site)
I have other departments which I also installed the CMS inside the home CMS.
I had to do this so I could set up individual permissions for each department.

My problem is this:
The default search that CMS comes with, only searches within the CMS pages that are hooked to it.
So the other CMS department website are not included in the search because the pages link to another CMS.
Make sense?

I need to find a search box that will search my WHOLE website.

Any good ideas?
Any good code?

I have installed sphider, it's "light" and work very well (and search in pdf/doc/xls/ppt files also)
If I have spare time I work to do a module

Alby