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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

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/

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

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.