Edward Peters wrote:

Does anyone know a way of getting the search engine to index static html files in the files directory? The Search Attachments module does a good job with PDFs, Docs etc, but I don't know how to do plain html files.

It doesn't look like the Search Attachments module is currently configurable to search through static html files that aren't registered in the database (it pulls all it's lists of files to index from the files table). However, aside from that small issue, it would be the perfect module to accomplish such a task, and the work involved would be as simple as replacing a db query with a directory scan, and configuring what the module author calls Helper Apps to parse the html.

Alternatively, there is the Swish-E module (http://drupal.org/project/swish) which appears to be very similar to Search Attachments.

Cheers,

Jonathan