i'm using Red Hat Linux 7.3....... running htsearch from command prompt, i use "htsearch -c htdigs.conf" and i run it from where htdigs.conf is located (which is /home/httpd/html/htdig/conf/)
typing "which htsearch" gives me: /usr/bin/htsearch looking at the dir /usr/bin, i notice that all the programs (htdig, htdump, htload, etc) are in there... so i guess that they were put there as part of the htDig installation. I clearly have two installations of htDig which must be confused. My search.html is definatly using/calling the correct htsearch in the /cgi-bin folder. And /cgi-bin has correctly been defined as /home/httpd/html/cgi-bin within the Apache httpd.conf. Anyway, I've decided to wipe everything and re-install Linux (as i'm only using a test machine). Thanks for the help in pointing me in the right direction, though I can't seem to fix the problem. To ensure that I don't make the same mistakes second time round on a fresh install of HtDig, can someone tell me whether my assumptions/thinking below is correct (so that I can understand HtDig better): - in the first CONFIG file, what is the purpose of defining the variable exec_prefix when it is equal to prefix (the root dir tree) ? - why does htdig install copies of the binaries in /usr/bin ? - once I have made changes to the CONFIG file and then Compile and Install HtDig (using "make" and then "make install".... am I right in thinking that whenever I run htsearch/rundig/etc, it somehow looks back at the original installation directory for the CONFIG file to find the values for DATABASE_DIR, COMMON_DIR, etc..... OR.... are those values hard coded in the binaries, and are the installation files and the CONFIG file are not used again (unless of course I want to install HtDig again) ? - how would I install another version of htDig? is it as simple as changing the CONFIG file to install to a different directory (by changing the 'root directory tree'. Can I do this and have two seperate htdig installations (with the aim of two seperate indexes/search forms/etc). Or do I have to create another set of installation files and create a second CONFIG file ? - if i have created an index using rundig, and I want to re-index a specific directory/URL. Which files do I need to delete before I run rundig again (after I have chanced the htdig.conf file) ? Is it just the db files in /htdig/db. Thanks for the help with these questions! Shams > 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 <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/'>http://10.5.1.199/test/</a></a> > > which has ONLY the files tea.html and coffee.html, > > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/coffee.html''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/coffee.html'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/coffee.html'>http://10.5.1.199/test/coffee.html</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/tea.html''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/tea.html'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/tea.html'>http://10.5.1.199/test/tea.html</a></a> > > why does it index the following URL's: > > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=D''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=D'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=D'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=D</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=A''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=A'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=A'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=A</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=A''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=A'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=A'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=A</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=A''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=A'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=A'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?N=A</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=D''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=D'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=D'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?D=D</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=D''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=D'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=D'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?M=D</a></a> > <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?S=D''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?S=D'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://10.5.1.199/test/?S=D'>http://10.5.1.199/test/?S=D</a></a> > >Because Apache's FancyIndexing option generates links to those alternate >directory views when you ask it for the /test/ directory listing. See <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.23''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.23'</a>><a Target='_new' Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.23'>http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.23</a></a> (last paragraph of 4.23). > >-- >Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: <a Target='_new' Href='<a Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/''>http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/'</a>><a > Target='_new' >Href='http://talk21.btopenworld.com/redirect.html?http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/'>http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/</a></a> >Dept. 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