[Mailman-Users] Mailman and htdig - blank search page

[Scott Race]

I think I am having a problem with the htdig seach templates.  On my old installation, I had a bunch of .html files in /etc/htdig - short.html, wrapper.html, etc....those files do not exist on my new installation.  

I copied them over from the old server to the new, rebooted, but same issue with a blank search page.  I checked the /etc/htdig/htdig.conf file and it says the common directory is /usr/share/htdig - that directory does not exist for me.

So I hacked my .conf file in /usr/local/mailman/htdig to point directly to the templates that I copied over:


template_map: Long long /etc/htdig/long.html \
               Short short /etc/htdig/short.html

template_name: short


I do indeed get search results now.  The results are not pretty - images don't appear and a few other problems - but - I get something.

Any basic tips to fix my templates or maybe what might be wrong with my common_dir variable?

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 6:13 AM
To: Scott Race
Cc: Karl Zander; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and htdig - issues after installing htdig

On 8/20/2010 9:07 PM, Scott Race wrote:
> Any search returns the same blank page, I did try a few more posts
> and searched for the term 'error' and my name.


See below:


> Rerunning the cron script now gives the following, even though I sent
> a post about 1 minute before running the cron script and it posted to
> the list....
> 
> [root at lists2 cron]# ./nightly_htdig -v mailman_project Skipping htdig
> for list; no recent posts: mailman_project


This should only occur if there is no
archives/private/mailman_project/yyyy-Month/ directory with a mod time
more recent than archives/private/mailman_project/htdig/rundig_last_run.
When you post, is the post archived? Does the mod time of
archives/private/mailman_project/2010-August get updated?



>> Running htsearch from command line gives me:
>> 
>> [root at list bin]# htsearch -c
>> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mailman_project/htdig/mailman_project.conf
>>
>> Enter value for words: test
>> Content-type: text/html
>>


This is normal/correct to here.


>> Enter value for format: short [root at lists2 bin]#


This should produce some HTML output following your input of 'short'.
There is some problem with htsearch or the mailman_project.conf file.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan