According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have managed to get htDig working from command line prompt, using > 'htsearch -c <config_file>' > > It seems that when I was using the command 'htsearch' on its own, it was > running a different version of htDig with a different (older) database. > So before, whenever I was re-indexing different directories and then > using 'htsearch'... old results kept coming up! > > At the moment, I don't know where the other isntallation of > htsearch/conf/db files may be.
Well, as I suggested yesterday, there are a couple possibilities. Either you have two different htsearch binaries, or they're running two different config files. From the CONFIG and htdigs.conf files that you sent, it would seem that htsearch is in /home/httpd/html/cgi-bin/htsearch, its default CONFIG_DIR is /home/httpd/html/htdig/conf, and the default config file is /home/httpd/html/htdig/conf/htdigs.conf. So, here are some questions for you... 1) When you run htsearch from the command line, where are you (i.e. what does the pwd command report)? What does "which htsearch" report? 2) Are there any other htsearch binaries on your system? What does "locate htsearch" and/or "find / -name htsearch -ls" report? 3) What value of <config_file> are you using in your htsearch command above? Is it different than the default /home/httpd/html/htdig/conf/htdigs.conf? 4) What is the value of the "action" attribute in the <form ...> tag in your search.html file? If it's the usual setting of "/cgi-bin/htsearch", what is the ScriptAlias definition for /cgi-bin in your Apache httpd.conf or srm.conf file? Does this definition match with the location where htsearch is installed? It obviously matches something, as htsearch is running from the server, but is it the same binary or a different one? What I'm getting at with all these questions is you need to trace the chain of logic, step by step, to determine what's going on, from what URL the search form is giving the server, to how the server translates that URL to a local path, to what binary the server runs as the htsearch CGI program, to what config file that binary uses, to what database that config file defines. Obviously, at some point in that chain, it's going to a different place than when you run htsearch from the command line. You need to figure out where and why. I can help, but I need the information above to do it. Also, I don't think you ever mentioned which platform you're running this on. The reason I ask is that the /home/httpd/html path for the web files looks like Red Hat Linux 6.2 or earlier (more recent Linux distributions tend to use /var/www/html or something like that). However, Red Hat 6 put /cgi-bin in /home/httpd, not /home/httpd/html, so if that's what you're running it may be that the server is grabbing the htsearch binary from a different "cgi-bin" directory than the one in which you installed it. If this is a Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSe Linux distribution, try "rpm -q htdig" and see if it reports anything. You may already have had an ht://Dig package installed before the one you compiled from the tar archive. > when indexing the directory http://10.5.1.199/test/ > > which has ONLY the files tea.html and coffee.html, > > http://10.5.1.199/test/coffee.html > http://10.5.1.199/test/tea.html > > why does it index the following URL's: > > http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=D > http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=A > http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=A > http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=A > http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=D > http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=D > http://10.5.1.199/test/?S=D Because Apache's FancyIndexing option generates links to those alternate directory views when you ask it for the /test/ directory listing. See http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.23 (last paragraph of 4.23). -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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
