[Lurker-users] Lurker - failed to render page

[Bo K. <bo...@vi...>]

Hi Guys,
Lurker is exactly what I've been looking for to index mailing lists and
a bunch of my old mail.....

I had no problems compiling, but I've got some configuration problems
and I've tried hitting the lurker.cgi about every way that I can think
of....

I got the lurker-1.0 and mimelib-3.1.1 packages from site, unpacked the
sources...  Then:

./configure --with-mimelib-local
make
make install-strip
 
the cgis were installed into /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin and the rest was
installed under /usr/local/var/www/lurker

I created a db directory /export10/lurkerdb and edited /etc/lurker.conf
accordingly....

I'm using Apache 2.0, so the config for lurker looks like this while I'm
trying to get this to work.

<LocationMatch "^/lurker/*">
	AddType	text/xml	.xsl
	AddType text/xml	.xml
	AddDefaultCharset	UTF-8
	ErrorDocument 404
/cgi-bin/lurker.cgi?/etc/lurker.conf?../var/www/lurker/splash/index.xml
</LocationMatch>
	
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/
Alias /lurker/ /usr/local/var/www/lurker/

line wrapping on the above ErrorDocument is due to email formatting... 
it is not actually wrapped in the httpd conf file for lurker.

I get the following when I try to access the site....

Lurker - failed to render page:
Cannot chdir (../var/www/lurker/splash/index.xml:No such file or
directory):
The specified path to the document root could not be entered. Check the
argument and permissions. 

permissions for the splash directory are currently set to 0777 and all
of the directories above are 0755, so any user should be able to to get
to the directory.

I ran the script manually following the example in
http://lurker.sourceforge.net/archive/message/20030327.003541.14d09de6.html and that generates the following:
./lurker.cgi /etc/lurker.conf splash/index.xml 
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../fmt/splash.xsl"?>
<splash>

<server><version>1.0</version><doc-url>http://:</doc-url><cgi-url>http:/</cgi-url><archive>Some Mailing List Archive</archive><email address="ni...@bi..." name="Unconfigured"/></server>
 <group>
  <id>lists</id>
  <heading>Mailing Lists</heading>
 
<list><id>samba</id><group>lists</group><link>http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba</link><description>This list is for all discussion between people using Samba and looking for help understanding it or installing it.</description><email address="sa...@li..." name="Samba Mailing List"/></list>
 </group>
</splash>


I fed this into xsltproc and got the following....
-:1: error: Start tag expected, '<' not found
Status: 200 OK
^
cannot parse -

So I removed:
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

And then tried again with xsltproc and got a splash/index.html that
works!

FWIW, I was able to lurker-index the sample mbox file w/o problems....

TIA for any guidance....



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