I'm Totally Lost!

[Thunderstone]

I admit that I am spoiled by GUI world of NT...but I cannot get the webinator to work.

I ran the install and it placed the files in "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webinator" - which I
assume is correct. By following your webinator guide on your site I attempted to
index a directory of html docs: http://localhost/listingsearch/ and it told me there was
no database and then that I had exceeded the 10,000 limit.

Am I missing something? Please give me some help on where I going wrong.

Thanks.

Kevin

[Thunderstone]

The first time you use gw, it will attempt to create the database if it
doesn't exist. That explains the first message. The second could have
been caused by a failure to fully create the database.

Is your disk full?

Remove the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webinator\db directory and everything
under it. Make sure you have 10 megs free on c: . Then run
gw -create

If you don't get any errors from that you should be all set to run
gw http://localhost/listingsearch/

Note, however, that that url will make the database so it's only usable
from the machine it's on. To make a database that can be used be people
on other workstations or the internet use the machine's real name. e.g.:
gw http://myhost.mysite.com/listingsearch/

[Thunderstone]

Hi Mark,
I have my website on a simplenet server,
I am wondering if I could use webinator on my pc with windows 95, to
create the database for my directories, then make a search utility with
htmlscript to use on the main server at simplenet to search the database
that was created with the webinator.

Michael

[Thunderstone]

The database must be created on the same type of system as the server,
which is probably not a windows 95 or NT machine.
And our search software must be installed on the server along with the database.