[Imc-tech] Library link and tech help

[Ellen Knutson]

Thanks Dan! And thanks to Wendy for offering to help. Radical techies 
rule!

-Ellen
On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 12:12  PM, 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/
>