On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Robert Isaac wrote: > Your prompt reply is greatly appreciated. I made some changes to the CONFIG > file and got it all installed in the web site root rather than the server > root. These are the changes I made:
The point of the configure script and the CONFIG file (in 3.1 releases) is to allow you to install ht://Dig whereever you want. I should point out one thing. You really may not want to have installed inside your website root, as this means your config files, databases, etc. will all be available to be served up remotely by the webserver. This would allow potential attacks on the server using the information in the databases. (I mention this, in part, because some service providers will get very annoyed if you open information like config files in this manner.) > I presume they are valid, well running make and make install seemed to go > OK. My next problem was how to run 'rundig'. I am very new to servers and > Unix commands. Just typing it at the command line didn't seem to do > anything, then when I tried to use the sample search form to do a search on > the web site I got the browser 'page unavailable'. A few more pointers > would be appreciated. Since you have installed into a directory that's not a standard program directory, you'll need to call rundig like this: /path/to/rundig [options] As for the sample search form, it assumes that the htsearch CGI program has been set up to be executed properly by your webserver under the path /cgi-bin/htsearch You may need to make sure the htsearch CGI is in the proper location and edit the search.html page appropriately. This would depend considerably upon your webserver configuration, so I can't really help you there. Cheers, -Geoff -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
