404 error on search.cgi

[JayInHawaii]

My search used to work just fine. I don't know what happened. Now, I get a 404 error when I execute http://www.jayhanson.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi

I assume that "search.cgi" is trying to load "search_template.html"

Apache will not allow me to load "search_template.html" from the cgi-bin directory.

Can you tell me which directory I am supposed to put my "search_template.html" in?

Thanks,
Jay

[David]

It seems to be the access (or lack thereof) to the search.cgi file that is causing the 404 error. I don't think the problem has anything to do with the search_template.html file. You don't need external direct web access to the search_template.html file, because it is loaded up by the CGI.

Is this on a Linux / Unix system? Did you check the file permissions on the .CGI file. Does it have execute permissions set?

See also this FAQ page for troubleshooting the CGI installation.
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_cgi.html

[JayInHawaii]

Sorry! It was a stupid problem.

Sorry! It was a stupid problem.

I haven't been able to get Zoom's ftp to work(?), so I have been using Filezilla for the ftp upload.

After digging around in everything under the sun -- all day long -- I finally discovered that Filezilla defaults ".cgi " files to a text transfer!

I uploaded search.cgi in binary and it worked immediately.

Thanks for your time,
Jay