Thanks Geoff, Gilles & Matt for your help!

Turns out I'd been passed an old release, with modified
versions of the sample rundig and config files. =:-0 

And I never did discover where the 'document contained no
data' error came from; but, after installing  3.1.5, the
problem's vanished! 

-DA

  
I have:

[root /home/httpd/cgi-bin]# ls -al htsearch
 ---x--x--x   1 root     root       960204 Aug  2 23:35
htsearch 


"Matthew R. MacIntyre" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On most searches (via the form input on the sample search
> > page) I get a "The document contained no data" netscape
> > error.
> >
> > What gives? Much appreciate any advice or leads!
> 
> I've had this happen to me before ... it turned out to be a permissions
> problem with the htsearch program.  Check to make sure it is executable by
> the webserver user (which is likely "nobody" in your case), and try again.
> Try running htsearch off of the command line too, to see how it works.

> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -matt

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