> Are you saying that I need to move htsearch, this file
> only, into the apache "proper" location?

Yes. Exactly that.

>  I did
> symbolic link from htdig-1.3.6/cgi-bin to
> apache/cgi-bin, but when I test it, it gave me "You
> don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/htsearch on
> this server".  But when I copy htsearch file into
> apache/cgi-bin directory, it works fine.  Does it mean
> that I have to setup something while using symbolic
> link?  if so, how to do it?  thanks.

You don't want to use a symbolic link--it's insecure for a CGI. There are
ways you can set up your Apache server to allow following symlinks out of
the cgi-bin directory (notably an option called FollowSymLinks), but
they're off by default for security reasons.

--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/



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