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I just download Webinator for evaluation as a possible tool for creating
a "site map." I download the Windows NT version and I am running
WebSite for NT. I have been unable to get the programs to work
correctly. As you may know, WebSite does not have one CGI-BIN
directory, but have several for different types of cgi scripts; ie, one
for DOS programs, one for Windows programs, one for Pearl and shell
programs. When I ran Installer.exe, I told it that the cgi-bin
directory is the cgi-dos since the programs are actually just dos
programs. However, nothing seems to run correctly. Each program gives
me an error message. Oh, GETURL works though. GW and Webinator does
not. I looked over the instructions provided at your web page, but none
of the instructions work; are those instructions meant for unix
machines? The site I am running is "internal." Does that have anything
to do with it? However, I was not able to index other sites either.
Please help. Thanks.



-Allan

There is a firewall, but I have no problem accessing the web. The error I
get from Webinator is:

Webinator is incorrectly installed!

Please contact the owners of this site and inform them.

SYSOBJECTS.tbl is missing

Using /webinator/db\SYSOBJECTS.tbl as eqprefix


The error I get from gw is:

000 gethostbyname: 0 - unknown winsock error
Can't connect to license server.


If the firewall is the problem, is there anyway that I can still evaluate
this software?? Thanks.



-Allan







none
john@thunderstone.com

Allan Liu said:

The directory should be the one for "Standard CGI", not "Dos CGI" or
"Windows CGI". I believe that cgi-shl is a default path.


What is the error message from gw and webinator? The free gw does need
to talk to license.thunderstone.com on port 10003 to run correctly. The
commercial versions do not. If you have a firewall or are not connected
to the internet this could be the problem.

John Turnbull
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Thunderstone Technical Support john@thunderstone.com

AXLIU1 said:

This is because you have not walked a site yet.


This suggests that name lookup is failing. I mis-stated the name of
the machine before. It is ls.thunderstone.com. Are you able to talk
to ls.thunderstone.com with a web-browser? If you can, and gw still
refuses to run then it is most likely a firewall problem.


If you go to our homepage there is a link there called "Index your site",
which will cause a Webinator on one of our machines to walk your site, and
we will send you the URL to get to your individual search.

John Turnbull
-------------
Thunderstone Technical Support john@thunderstone.com

Hi,

we are installing webinator and trying to get it to go.

We are using the solaris sparc version.

During gw indexing, we have a failure as follows:

Pub% ./gw http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us
000 Could not initialize memory: Invalid argument


Any ideas on how to get past this?
thanks!
james

Make sure you have shared memory and semaphores enabled in your kernel.
The unix command "ipcs" should give you some insight. See your
system manuals for enabling shared memory and semaphores.

im using webinator search engine on my site and i need to ask you two questions!
1. i have front page 2000 shared borders on my site, so how to add shared borders at result pages of webinator search?
2. how to limit webiantor to search some directories or to dont search some?

thnk you!

You can place the desired "look and feel" HTML code into search
script's "top" and "bottom" functions. Then all pages generated by the
search will have the same look and feel.


Add a "matches" clause to the main search <sql> statement. e.g.:

<$uq="www.mysite.com/section1%">
<sql ... "select ... where Title\Meta\Body likep $q
and Url matches $uq ...">
or
<sql ... "select ... where Title\Meta\Body likep $q
and Url not matches $uq ...">

See http://www.thunderstone.com/texisman/node60.html