I was adding the crawlrule for form authentication site. and in the login page url i might have added the long url and becos of that i am getting this error. I have tried to see that entry in the DB but i m not able to find it. Can you please help me that in which Table i will get the entry or what can be the other problem? Below is the exception i m getting when i used to access the crawlrules through Object model code. System.IO.PathTooLongException] System.IO.PathTooLongException was unhandled by user code Message="The filename or extension is too long. " Source="" StackTrace: at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.RunOnServer[T](CodeToRun`1 remoteCode, CodeToRun`1 localCode, Boolean useCurrentSecurityContext, Int32 versionIn) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.RunOnServer[T](CodeToRun`1 remoteCode, CodeToRun`1 localCode, Int32 versionIn) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.GetCrawlRuleList(Int32 versionIn) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.GetCrawlRuleList() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CrawlRuleCollection..ctor(Content parent) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Content.get_CrawlRules() at FBA_Tool.role.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in \role.aspx.cs:line 25 at System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) at System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) InnerException: Can somebody reply me on this question, if you need more please let me know.