I'm getting freakin annoyed!!

[Jim Oaks]

I have been trying all day to set up a search feature for the main part of the site. There are a lot of pages on this site and re-enabling a search would be great!

The only real search I could find was from:

http://www.scriptarchive.com/readme/search.html

I can't get the damn thing to work!

I use to have entropysearch.cgi:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040804232921/www.therangerstation.com/search.htm

but I don't know where it came from....

Here's what I'm working with:

[SIZE=2]
# Define Variables #
$basedir = '/home/scriptarchive/';
$baseurl = 'http://www.scriptarchive.com/';
@files = ('*.html');
$title = "Matt's Script Archive";
$title_url = 'http://www.scriptarchive.com/';
$search_url = 'http://www.scriptarchive.com/demos/search/search.html';
# Done #

[/SIZE]

 

[RobbieD]

Sorry I can't help you, Jim, but the new website is really looking great. There's still stuff to be done, but you guys are doing a hell of a good job. Saw this when I just popped on:

Threads: 517, Posts: 3,080, Members: 599, Active Members: 599

600 members tonight, fo sho. That's in only 6 days. Hang in there, dude!

 

[MrE_Powers]

go goof off or sleep some and come back to it later. then the problem will seem to fix its self.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Ok, this is the only thing that I can think of that could possibly be off:

[SIZE=2]#!/usr/bin/perl

[/SIZE]

I can't verify the perl location.

 

[Jim Oaks]

......well.....that's right.

 

[rangerwreck]

Do you have shell (command prompt) access on the server?

If so, run "which perl", and it'll spit out the path to the perl executable so you can verify that. That is, if it's a UNIX variant.

What's the error you're getting exactly?

 

[rangerwreck]

Make sure you script is set up with execute permissions as well. On the command prompt, type "chmod +rx /where/the/script/is/located/search.pl"

If you don't have shell access, you can do it through most FTP programs. Find the script, and there should be some option to "set permissions" or something.

 

[rangerwreck]

Can you post a snippit from the Apache error log after *trying* to run the script? It should lend some clues...

Haha, anyone else up for some late night perl hacking?

 

[Ozwynn]

sure ... soon as I get my ubuntu issue solved