[Imc-tech] Library link and tech help

[Sascha Meinrath]

see -- that's what i'm talking about -- sys-admin magic!

thanks dan,

--sascha

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Daniel S. Lewart wrote:

> Ellen,
>
> > I also need some help. I finally made live a new version of the library
> > website that was created by a class at GSLIS. But in the process of
> > doing so, I seemed to have broken the search capabilities of the
> > catalog. Its a shame because on the new site the search function is
> > more prominent. The way the search function is actually a cgi that call
> > a perl script.
>
> > I think it is permissions problem with the msearch.cgi (library catalog
> > search) but I can't figure it out, archsearch.cgi (IMC archive search)
> > has additional problems. When using a browser you get a Forbidden error
> > message on both. I can run msearch.cgi from the command line no
> > problem. archsearch.cgi won't run at the command line.  Can any of you
> > help me figure out what is going on? So the library files are in
> > /var/www/urbana/library. The search forms are searchcollection.html and
> > searcharchive.html they call msearch.cgi and archsearch.cgi
> > respectively.
>
> I saw the following in /var/log/apache/ucimc-error.log:
> 	[error] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory:
> 		/var/www/urbana/library/archsearch.cgi
>
> I added the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf in the
> www.ucimc.org virtual host:
> 	<Directory /var/www/urbana/library>
> 	    AllowOverride None
> 	    Options ExecCGI
> 	</Directory>
>
> Restarting Apache seems to have fixed the problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
> http://www.ucimc.org/
>
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