Xapian discuss - Nov 2011 - not found on this server.

Hello,

I am setting up omega to index a collection of reprints, mostly pdf
documents.  The documents are in ~/Research/E-prints, which is symlinked
from the root directory of my web-server:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2011-11-29 07:12 E-prints ->
/home/rmason/Research/E-prints/

I have indexed the E-print diectory:

sudo omindex --db /var/lib/xapian-omega/data/default --url /
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/E-prints

Searching a term using the cgi interface gets lots of hits, but the
links always return a 404 error.

I am inexperienced in setting up a web-server (apache2) so I'm sure there is
some
simple configuration error.  Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Roger

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:10:37AM -0330, Roger Mason
wrote:
> I am setting up omega to index a collection of reprints, mostly pdf
> documents.  The documents are in ~/Research/E-prints, which is symlinked
> from the root directory of my web-server:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2011-11-29 07:12 E-prints ->
/home/rmason/Research/E-prints/
> 
> I have indexed the E-print diectory:
> 
> sudo omindex --db /var/lib/xapian-omega/data/default --url /
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/E-prints
The --url argument give the URL corresponding to the start directory,
so you want: --url /E-prints

The indexer should notice the URLs have changed, but it'll be a bit
faster if you add "--overwrite" the first time you rerun this, so that
it starts from scratch.

Incidentally, it's better not to run things as root if you can avoid it,
so I'd remove the sudo here and set the permissions on
/var/lib/xapian-omega/data/ suitably.  If the indexer gets run as user
"fred" then you can do that with:

chown -R fred /var/lib/xapian-omega/data

Cheers,
    Olly