Thanks for your advice :
I checked the <http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.17>
FAQ.
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5.17. When using Netscape,
htsearch always returns the "No match" page.
(NOT ONLY FOR Netscape
3.2.x, but for ANY BROWSER --> .... )
Another possibility,
if you're running 3.2.0b1 or 3.2.0b2, is
(YES ----> ..........
)
that you need to make
the db.words.db_weakcmpr file writeable
by the user ID under
which the web server runs.
This is a bug, and will
be fixed in the next beta.
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Finally, the problem was not the hidden
fields in search.html
but in the ...
db.words.db_weakcmpr ... Which has to be WRITEABLE
by the user ID under which the web server runs (user "nobody").
BEFORE : (doesn' work ... search.html returns : NO MATCHES)
-rw-r--r-- root root
db.words.db_weakcmpr
AFTER : (WORKS! ... )
-rw-rw-rw- root root db.words.db_weakcmpr
CONCLUSION:
In any case db.words.db_weakcmpr has to
be Writeable by Apache user Id (-->nobody)
Maybe that's not very clean to "chmod" this way...
COMPLEMENTS :
I noticed that I had compiled and "make
check" HTDIG with a plain user (not user root
otherwise the make check doesn' work).
Then I "su -root" and "make install" ;
which means that htdig is installed with
owner "root".
Maybe I should have had "su - nobody"and
then "make install" ?
This way, the file would have been automatically
"writeable"....
But I didn't try yet and I'm not sure,
'nobody' would have been able to 'install' correctly
the whole stuff.
May be you would propose a 'clean' solution ?
Thanks again to Geoff Hutchison,
as well as to Michael Rhodes
Cheers
Jean
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Geoff Hutchison wrote:
At 11:31 AM +0100 11/3/00, Jean Tiberghien wrote:--
>But Everytime, when I try <http://>http://<web_site>/htdig/search.html
>it always returns "No matches were found", whatever the words submitted.
>It looks like the "htsearch" CGI, in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/htsearch
>is not looking in the right place ...May be I missed one point.No, if it can't find the databases it will tell you that.
Try this: <http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.17>
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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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