Re: [htdig] No stars

[Eric D. <ed...@sp...>]

Jim wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Eric Damron wrote:
>
>> The following directories are used by Suse Linux:
>>
>> The htdig.conf configuration file is located in: �*/etc/htdig/*.�
>> The graphics files are located in: �*/srv/www/htdig/images/*.�
>> The header.html, footer.html, etc files are located in:
>> �*/srv/www/htdig/common/*.�
>> The site's content pages are located in: �*/srv/www/htdocs/*.�
>> The htdig database is stored in: �*/var/lib/htdig/db/*.�
>> The htsearch binary is located in: �*/srv/www/cgi-bin/*.*/�/*
>>
>> It seems to me that if I put in my htdig.conf file:
>>
>> image_url_prefix: /srv/www/htdig/images
>>
>> or maybe: image_url_prefix: /srv/www/htdig
>
> The image_url_prefix attribute specifies the path you would append to
> your server name to generate a URL for the images. As such, it looks
> like you would want to use something like /htdig/images, assuming that
> /srv/www is your document root.
>
>
> J
> im
Thanks Jim! Actually the document root is htdocs which is inside www. It
may be some kind of security thing going on. It's probably a bad idea
allowing the web server to go outside of the document root for content.
Anyway, with the information that you provided, I got it to work by
copying the htdig/images directories into the htdocs directory.