File does not exist

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rjshelq
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File does not exist

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Hi,

My Webinator installation seems to be working fine, yet I notice some errors in my system error log. It seems that whenever a query gives a large number of results, something over 100 or so, then a "File does not exist" message appears in the error log even though the query was completed and the results seem "normal".

For example, I just did a test query that returned 198 results, and then looked in the logs.. the Monitor log says:

200 2006-03-08 08:45:06 (11016) Database Monitor on /usr/local/bin/webinator/texis/rx/db2/ starting

there is nothing in the vortex log, and then 3 seconds later the system error log says:

[Wed Mar 08 08:45:09 2006] [error] [client 70.56.53.201] File does not exist: /home/virtual/site11/fst/var/www/html/webinator, referer: http://wahiduddin.net/cgi-bin/texis/web ... mit=Submit

The file path that is shown in the error message "/home/virtual/site11/fst/var/www/html/webinator" is not the correct path to webinator... the correct path is "/usr/local/bin/webinator". So, it appears that some part of webinator has the wrong path... yet the search worked fine and the results were good. Dowalk runs fine, and has no error messages.

The only time I see the error message is when there are a large number of results. Oddly, the search in that case can take up to 6 or 7 seconds, which seems very long. Do you have any clue of what might be causing the "File does not exist" error, or how I can track it down?
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File does not exist

Post by mark »

That looks like the webserver's error log, not the system error log. Look at the webserver's access log for the same time to see what was requested by the client.
rjshelq
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File does not exist

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The access log says:

70.56.53.201 - - [08/Mar/2006:08:45:09 -0800] "GET /webinator/tstonebut.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 1405

It appears that the install did not copy the gif files to the html directory. So, I copied them, and the errors have stopped.

Thanks!
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