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First I'd like to say that you guys at Thunderstone give great support for a product that's free!

Now to the problem. I have installed Webinator, index a directory of html docs (it said it did 26 pages).
When I go to the search page - it comes back with 0 results. Am I not doing something?

Thanks.
Kevin
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Thanks.


I assume you tried searching for something that you know was on those
pages. View the source of the results page in your browser to see if there
are any associated error messages.

My guess is that you have permission problems. If you supply all of the
right information during installation, gw and texis will be made setuid
to the user you identify to avoid such problems. You need to make sure
that you run gw and texis as the same userid. Texis is run by the web server
so it takes on the userid of the web server unless texis is setuid to some
other user.

Decide on a userid for webinator files (your own userid or
the webserver's is a reasonable choice).
Make all of the programs and files owned by that user.
chown THEUSERNAME CGIPATH/texis
chown THEUSERNAME . bin/gw db db/*
Make gw and texis setuid to that user.
chmod u+s bin/gw
chmod u+s CGIPATH/texis

Or just remove the database and reinstall webinator.

The key is to always access the database as the same userid.


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