According to Emma Jane Hogbin: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:32:05PM +0000, Robert Isaac wrote: > > I have htdig 3.1.6 installed and running OK in the web site root but want > > to install it lower down the server tree. All went well but when I entered > > a name to search for in the search.html form I got the error 'cannot read > > configuration file'. > > What are the permissions on your config file? I usually do: > chmod 775 > This is "everyone can read and execute" but only the owner (and the group) > can write to the file/edit it. > > If you've actually moved the config file from /etc/htdig to a different > directory you may need to recompile the search engine and tell it where to > look for configuration files (i.e. re-set the default config dir).
The /etc/htdig directory is the default CONFIG_DIR setting for many RPM distributions of ht://Dig, but isn't usually the compiled-in CONFIG_DIR setting when you install from source code. (The default that ./configure uses is something like /opt/www/htdig/conf.) In any case, if you move your configuration files to any directory other than what CONFIG_DIR was set to as compile time, htsearch is going to have problems finding the config files. Unfortunately, there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. You can't just set config_dir in a config file to override the compiled-in value, as htsearch can't even file a config file to begin with. So, there are really two options: 1) you reset CONFIG_DIR in the source and recompile htsearch, or 2) you create a wrapper script for htsearch that sets CONFIG_DIR as an environment variable, to override the compiled-in value. See http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.32 and http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.30 -- 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
