I recently installed Webinator on an Irix 5.3 box. Everything went smootly,
I had no trouble indexing my site or installing the software, but when I go
to run it I have problems. When I run it from a premade html page with
"METHOD=POST ACTION=http://art4all.com/cgi-bin/webinator" I have no problem
and it works fine, but the search form it returns is incorrect. The
Thunderstone graphic does not appear and the search does not work. A look
at the source reveals the reason. Instead of "webinator" in all the ACTIONs
or in front of query strings it reads "cgi". Thus, it tries to call
http://art4all.com/cgi-bin/cgi and of course if cannot find it, so I get an
error. If I run the script from a command prompt the problem disappears.
Where all the "cgi"s were before now reads "webinator" like it should.
I am almost positive this is some sort of permissions problem, but I cannot
figure out what it is. The system I am running off is a virtual domain and
I have cgi-bin access via a cgi wrapper. Supposedly this makes all cgi
scripts run from my domain as my user id. When I installed webinator it
asked what the web server's user id was... thinking that this was going to
be my user id because the scripts under my domain run as my user id I
entered my user id. This gave the file "webinator" suid to my name, but the
cgi wrapper would not execute a suid file from the web. I used chmod and
changed it to 777 but I still have the error of it returning the "cgi"
instead of "webinator". So, I reinstalled this time leaving the uid of the
web server blank. I encounter the same problem with this method, too.
Is there something obvious I am missing here? I have read through all of
the online documentation as well as looked and searched through the
archived listserv messages. The search works beautifully the first time, I
just cannot get it to return the proper search form. Thanks in advance for
any help you can lend.
James D. Alessio
jamie@art4all.com
www.art4all.com