Unable to resist the compulsion to tinker with my working Debian system, I've gone and screwed up my DWWW installation.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww When it was working, the ability to search for, and read Debian system documention via a web browser made learning things about Debian much easier. The problem is I've grown impatient with the somewhat deliberate pace which new(er) versions of major applications like Apache, MySql, and PHP are added. So, I started downloading source directly from the application's home page, and compiling it myself. Naturally, doing this, has forced me to handle the various package dependencies, and differing pathnames myself. (Yes, I know, apt-get, and other automated installation tools will handle these details for me, if I was satisfied with somewhat old(er) applications.) Now I'm stuck with broken DWWW installation. deb-reconfigure --force dwww nearly worked. At least I can now browse to the virtual location where DWWW presents a page where I can enter search terms, but the results are returned as an error page 'permission denied'. Looking in the Apache logs, I get 'attempting to invoke a directory as a script'. /cgi-bin/dwww is the problem directory. The referrer is one of the scripts in /var/www/dwww. Can someone tell me where DWWW expects to find its scripts? I see they are somewhat scattered around the filesystem. I've looked at the file list, and pathnames which result when dpkg is invoked with -L, but it doesn't make clear which scripts are going into /cgi-bin/. Doesn't seem to be any dwww scripts put into that directory anyway. Perhaps, it is the way I've declared/defined the directory to apache in /etc/dwww/apache.conf that causes apache to attempt to invoke that directory as a script. At any rate, I've run out of ideas or don't recognize the problem when I see it. Anyone have any suggestions? Note: for those unfamiliar with Debian's apt-get, apt-get install dwww will handle all the details for you, and you'll have apache, and dwww, and the necessary library files installed correctly for you. Other installers work in a similiar fashion. regards Ernest __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
