Hi all, i need help with htdig and apache configuration. Please let me know
if this is too long and i'll summarize it and you can refer back to this post
for details.
Still, this is not *very* long. (Please ;)) I also broke this post up into
3 sections to help make it easier to read:
"The Problem", "Investigation", "Attempted Fixes".
The Problem
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I'm now getting what seems to be an infamous error when i try a search via
htdig and apache on Red Hat 7.2. I say "infamous" because the htdig FAQ does
discuss this. But i've tried to follow the FAQs instructions and it's still not
working and i'm not even sure if i'm doing this right.
My browser displays "[500] Internal Server Error" and suggests "More
information about this error may be available in the server error log."
Investigation:
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/httpd/error_log does indeed contain this:
[Sun Feb 24 18:51:13 2002] [error] [client 192.168.8.9] Premature end of script
headers: /var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
htsearch: relocation error: htsearch: undefined symbol: config__15HtConfiguration
<end>
../htdig-3.2.0/FAQ.html#q5.23 advises, 'An increasingly common problem is Apache
configurations which expect all CGI scripts to be Perl, rather than binary
executables or other scripts, so they use "perl-handler" rather than "cgi-handler".
The fix is to create a separate directory for non-Perl CGI scripts, and define it
as such in your httpd.conf file. You should define it the same way as your existing
cgi-bin directory, but use "cgi-handler" instead of "perl-handler".'
But /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf on my machine does not include "perl-handler".
Instead, it has "PerlHandler" in this section:
# If the perl module is installed, this will be enabled.
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
Alias /perl/ /var/www/perl/
<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
</IfModule>
Attempted Fixes:
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My httpd.conf now has these entries:
# Default ScriptAlias from Apache & Red Hat
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# Special ScriptAlias added for htdig
ScriptAlias /htdig-cgi/ "/var/www/bin-cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/bin-cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I copied /var/www/cgi-bin/ to /var/www/bin-cgi-bin/ and restarted
httpd (several times, since i added these changes step-by-step),
but still no luck.
What am i doing wrong? What should i do?
Thanks,
AD Marshall
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