According to SoloCDM: > SoloCDM stated the following: > > Jim Cole stated the following: > > > SoloCDM's bits of Thu, 7 Mar 2002 translated to: > > >> In Apache 1.3.22, I received the following results when I entered in > > >> a search criteria: > > > > >> Netscape is unable to find the file or directory named > > >> /cgi-bin/htsearch.
That's the sort of error Netscape gives when it's trying to open a file locally, as opposed to going through a web server. How exactly are you calling htsearch? If it's from a search form, what does the action attribute of the <form> tag look like? > > >> From what I could tell, commonhttpd.conf has all the settings > > >> applied to allow htsearch to be found in the cgi-bin. Also, the > > >> permissions for the directories are chmod 755. > > > > > Have you checked httpd.conf to see precisely which directory it is > > > using for CGI's? Have you physically checked this directory to see > > > if the htsearch executable is present? If it is there, have you > > > verified that htsearch has read and execute permission? Have you > > > tested any other CGI's in this directory to ensure that the webserver > > > configuration itself is sane? > > > > Everything in the /cgi-bin/ directory works. Using > > "/var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch doc" works. > > Important note: "/var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch doc" was executed at the > command line. I'm not sure what the "doc" command line argument is supposed to accomplish. htsearch expects a complete query string as an argument, so if you want it to search for the word "doc", you should use words=doc as the argument. Presumably you're getting the "No matches were found for ''" page as output from htsearch. If so, this does at least confirm that the htsearch binary is executable by your own user ID (but not necessarily by the web server's), and it doesn't confirm that Netscape is even attempting to execute htsearch on the web server. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
