Mike, Thanks for your help
>> HTDIG version is unknown. >Try htsearch -h Done version is 3.1.6 >> With only a few problems I was able to modify htdig.conf and the rundig >> script and get rundig to execute creating a searchable index. >Exactly what mods did you have to make? The key to the problem might >be applying those same mods to htsearch. I modified the values for DBDIR, COMMONDIR, and BINDER in rundig to match the current installation folders. If I need to make these changes to htsearch where/how do I do this please. >Running from the command line is a very different case to running by >order of a remote browser on the net. For one thing Apache can be set >up to change the run environment, and htsearch itself changes behaviour. >For example: you cannot use the "-c configfile" option running directly >as cgi, you need a wrapper script. Ok, I may need to tackle this option later. For now the default config file should work? Yes or No? >The first >message could mean anything from "Apache couldn't find the program", to >"nothing returned" to "error returned". Have you verified the basic >operation of cgi in general by dropping a little perl script into >/usr/bin <<Arrghh! see below!>> and checking that it can be run from a >form? No, I am not sure if I am capable of doing this. But to address your concern over the actual location of the script and the ScriptAlias I created, why isn't htsearch installed in the cgi-bin directory? Should I write a script to call htsearch and place that in the cgi-bin directory. If so is there an example somewhere? I do not want any security holes on the server. > "ScriptAlias created for apache /htdig-cgi/ /usr/bin/" >I do not think this is a good idea! It means that anything in /usr/bin >can be run from outside. A cgi binary directory should have *only* >those executables that have to be run as cgi, and IMO you should be >pretty paranoid about what they do. Thanks so much. Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
