Re: htsearch- any ideas?

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@pobox.com>]

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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Daniel E. Markle wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:54:09AM -0800, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
> > We don't want 'make install' installing the htsearch binary in /cgi-bin/
> > because it screws up CVS.
> 
> I thought we wanted to do it this way so that we wouldn't have to recompile
> and install htsearch for each module as well, we would have one central
> location to upgrade.  I could have the CVS scripts handle that file
> specifically in my scripts, if we decide that is the best solution, though I
> think it is a messy solution.

Actually I want to be able to run different versions of htdig for each CVS
module if I want.  Recompiling/installing for each module isn't a big deal
actually.  Just cut and paste from my documentation.
 
> > I was hoping that someone else would have a better idea.
> 
> How about having apache set /home/htdig/bin as an alias to /htsearchbin or
> something and allowing execution from there, calling htsearch with the -c
> command in our scripts?

Hmmm... that's a good idea.  I'm actually going through the httpd.conf
file now cleaning it up and fixing the security.  I'll give it a try.


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