Re: htsearch not running from a search.html file

Graeme Nichols <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:02:04 +1000
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.htdig.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Graeme,
> I am not really a *nix person, but the symptoms you describe suggest
> that the web server does not recognise the file as being executable - I
> presume that you are running Apache? If so, try a quick Google for
> tutorials on setting up CGI programs.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike

Hi Mike, thanks.

I did as you suggested and read through a tutorial from apache on 
setting it up to run cgi programs.

My httpd.conf file is configured correctly.

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
     AllowOverride None
     Options None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
</Directory>

I have copied htsearch to /var/www/cgi-bin and made it executable by all.

My ServerRoot is /var/www/html

The server works just fine and I can access my web site OK. Other cgi 
programs I have also work just fine. It is only htsearch that barfs 
which seems to me to be a htdig problem

my htsearch file follows:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>ht://Dig WWW Search</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#eef7ff">
<h1>
<a href="http://www.htdig.org"><IMG SRC="/htdig/htdig.gif" 
align="bottom" alt="ht://Dig" border="0"></a>
WWW Site Search</h1>
<hr noshade size="4">
This search will allow you to search the contents of
all the publicly available WWW documents at this site.
<br>
<p>
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
<font size="-1">
Match: <select name="method">
<option value="and">All
<option value="or">Any
<option value="boolean">Boolean
</select>
Format: <select name="format">
<option value="builtin-long">Long
<option value="builtin-short">Short
</select>
Sort by: <select name="sort">
<option value="score">Score
<option value="time">Time
<option value="title">Title
<option value="revscore">Reverse Score
<option value="revtime">Reverse Time
<option value="revtitle">Reverse Title
</select>
</font>
<input type="hidden" name="config" value="htdig">
<input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="exclude" value="">
<br>
Search:
<input type="text" size="30" name="words" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
<hr noshade size="4">
</body>
</html>

When I submit the query I still get the following error:

You have chosen to open

  HTSEARCH

  which is a: BIN file

from /cgi-bin
  Would you like to save this file?

I am hoping I can get this fixed.


-- 
Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
...
Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/)

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