According to Jim Cole: > On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 10:57 PM, prem harish wrote: > > step 3.copied /opt/www/cgi-bin/htsearch to the cgi-bin > > of the webserver ie I created a directory cgi-bin in > > the same above ROOT directory and copied htsearch. > > step 4. test search.html in browser and enter a > > string. I entered a string in the search box and got a > > page full of junk characters. > > Have you tried testing any other CGI programs from the cgi-bin > directory that you created? Perhaps a simple CGI script that you are > familiar with? Generally creating a cgi-bin directory is not > sufficient; in most cases additional web server configuration is > required in order to enable CGI's. Based on your description, it sounds > like the web server might be trying to return the content of the > htsearch file as text rather than executing it and returning the > results.
See also http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.19 -- 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: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ 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
