error after editing search script

Post Reply
User avatar
Thunderstone
Site Admin
Posts: 2504
Joined: Wed Jun 07, 2000 6:20 pm

error after editing search script

Post by Thunderstone »




I am installing webinator (not as root but as a user with permission to
run cgi scripts)
in a web area subdirectory. The installation goes smoothly and the
search script
works but the images are not found (the HTML file thinks they are in
http://hostname/webinator/wstsbut.gif (for example) instead of
http://hostname/mydirectory/webinator/wstsbut.gif which is where
they are put during the installation.)

When I try to edit the search script to change the directory name where
the
gif files are really located, any following searches fall over and I get
the
following error:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright © 1996-1998 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.

Free Webinator Version 2.1.884882179 of Jan 15, 1998

Error

002 /mydirectory/webinator/search: Can't create output file
/services/WWW/mydirectory/webinator/search.vtx: File exists in the
function writeobj
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to resolve this.
Many Thanks,
Karen O'Flaherty.




User avatar
Thunderstone
Site Admin
Posts: 2504
Joined: Wed Jun 07, 2000 6:20 pm

error after editing search script

Post by Thunderstone »




Vortex is trying to recompile the script after your changes, and it
can't rewrite the search.vtx file. Make sure the user that CGI
programs are run as by your web server has permission to delete and
create files in /services/WWW/mydirectory/webinator.

-Kai


Post Reply