Re: [htdig] htdig Installation problem

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Jim Cole:
> On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Robert Isaac wrote:
...
> > tired to use the search.html form in my browser, but when I pressed 
> > the button I got a 'The page cannot be displayed' error. See it at 
> > www.volvoclub.org.uk/htdig/search.html
> 
> I get a "Method Not Allowed" page. It appears that your server is not 
> configured to handle POST requests. The first step is probably to 
> change the method to GET. However it also appears that your server is 
> either not configured to handle CGI programs in the directory you are 
> using or the file is failing to meet some other server requirement 
> (e.g. filename extension). If accessed with a GET request, htsearch is 
> being treated as a normal page and the server is returning the raw 
> bytes from the executable. Do you have any other CGI programs in the 
> directory you are using for htsearch? If so, do they follow any sort of 
> common naming convention? Perhaps you need a .cgi or .pl extension.

See also http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.13 ,
http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.19 and http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.23

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)