Re: [cobalt-users] Quick Mnogosearch Question

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tim King" <tgk5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My problem is with search.cgi
> When I try to access it from a browser I get a blank page, I view source
> and it is a standard empty page no errors.
> Run from the command line it works perfectly and returns the html results
> page.

It's been a long time since I've touched search.cgi.  I use the php
front-end which is downloadable from mnogosearch.org as a separate package.
The more recent versions of mNoGoseach require PHP to be
compiled --with-mnogosearch (and it must be 4.0.5+) for the PHP front-end to
work, but earlier versions do not.

> I've searched the mnogosearch.org list and posted the question and I can't
> find any answers. I'm wondering if it's something specific to the cobalt
> setup. Did you have run into this problem? What permissions have you got
> setup for the various files (search.htm and search.cgi)? Could it be a
> problem with CGI-Wrapper ?

I'd look at all of the normal CGI problems and debugging solutions.  For
starters, I'd check whether another simple Perl CGI works as expected on the
site, check that the site/user has permission to run CGIs and add the
following line to the top of the script for debugging:

use CGI::Carp(fatalsToBrowser);

H.P.'s RaQ CGI FaQ will probably be useful too.

http://users.iol.it/hpstr/

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