On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > >I have been following this thread and had hoped to find a solution to my > >problem, but seems it's ended without the answer I expected:-) > >In my situation (several live lists), I get this error when I make a > search > >for a word I am very sure is there: > > > > > ><cut> > >htdig Archives Access Failure search failed -12- > [...] > >What could be the cause?? > > > It means that the search form data were posted to the mmsearch wrapper > and then to the mmsearch.py script which in turn set up a 2-way pipe > to the htsearch command configured in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py as > HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH to actually perform the search, and htsearch > terminated normally (exit status = 0) but wrote no output to the pipe. > > what happens if you run > > /path/to/htsearch \ > -c /path/to/archives/private/kictanet/htdig/kictanet.conf > > It should prompt for "words" which is your search word, then output a > "Content-type: text/html" header followed by an empty line, then > prompt for "format" (enter Short or Long), and finally output the html > result. > > Reading your response closely, I checked my mm_cfg.py and realized that my HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH was pointing to a non-existent path. Once I corrected this, the search started to work. However I had issues with broken icons which I also managed to fix. Apparently htdig installs its icons to /usr/local/www/icons/htdig/ so I just copied those to /usr/local/www/icons/, fixed any references in htdig.conf added an appropriate Redirect rule in Apache configuration: RedirectPermanent /htdig /icons These are as a result of how htdig installs on FreeBSD. Looking at the Makefile for the port, I see it was configured to put these things at the "wrong" places, i.e. --with-image-dir=${PREFIX}/www/icons/htdig \ --with-image-url-prefix=/icons/htdig Thank you so much, because my searches now work. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org