Re: Problems with Glimpse/Webglimpse

[Golda Velez <(use contact form)>]

Usually the "The search parameters caused an error in the call to Glimpse"
error is because you're searching on a number or a very common word, and
glimpseindex wasn't run with the -n option (for numbers).  You can find out
exactly what the error is by doing a View..Source, and running the actual
glimpse command from the comment near the beginning of the output on the
command line.

Once you find out what the actual glimpse error is, usually it is pretty
easy to avoid.

--G

At 09:48 AM 1/22/01 -0800, David W. Anderson wrote:
>I had Glimpse 4.1 / Webglimpse 1.7.1 working just fine on my web site - 
>Horrordvds.com.  Please note that my site is non-profit so I'm running the 
>educational copy.
>
>My web hoster had to move me to another server since I needed more 
>space/bandwidth.  Once they did that Glimpse stopped working.  When I 
>telneted in and tried manually running glimpse it gave me a floating point 
>error.  I imagine this is because Glimpse was compiled on a certain version 
>of FreeBSD, and that this new server was a different version of 
>FreeBSD.  Note that the original Glimpse package I downloaded was 
>pre-compiled for FreeBSD, so I didn't have the source code to Glimpse.
>
>I downloaded the most recent source code to glimpse (Version 4.13.1) and 
>compiled it on my web server.  Without too much working I got things back 
>up and working fairly quick.  However, I came across a problem.
>
>Basically, if I do a search using Webglimpse/Glimpse and it FINDS what I'm 
>searching for, the appropriate results page comes up with the various links 
>to each result.
>
>If I do a search using Webglimpse/Glimpse and it DOESN'T FIND what I'm 
>searching for, a 'GLIMPSE ERROR' page comes up.  Specifically, it 
>states"The search parameters caused an error in the call to Glimpse".  This 
>only happens when it can't find what I'm searching for.  Otherwise, if it 
>finds something, the appropriate results page comes up.  Now this isn't how 
>it worked before.  On my old server when I searched for something that it 
>couldn't find, the same sort of results page came up that's used when you 
>DO find something, just there were no links and it stated that it couldn't 
>find what you were looking for.
>
>So, that's the problem.  Any ideas?  I was trying to find somewhere that I 
>could get the source to Glimpse 4.1.  I was thinking if I compiled that and 
>tried using it on my server, maybe it would work since the pre-compiled 4.1 
>used to work just fine.  If anyone has it or could let me know where to get 
>it I'd appreciate it.
>
>If you want to try searching and see the problem for yourself, just go to 
>http://www.horrordvds.com - the search box is on that main page.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>David W. Anderson - dave@horrordvds.com
>Webmaster - Horrordvds.com
>
>
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