Possible to install if httpd.conf not readable to user?

[Paul Johnson <pauljohn@ukans.edu>]

I just discovered what might cause the trouble I have in installing
Webglimpse: The conf file of the apache server is not readable by
users.  Since I run webglimpse under cgiwrap with my own user identity,
I'm afraid the webglimpse can't read the httpd.conf file and as a result
it does not work.  Perhaps I have to explicitly set everything in
.wgsiteconf?

In response to my previous note in this list, Golda Velez encouraged me
to set the USERDIR in my .wgsiteconf. Since then I also learned that the
httpd.conf file is not world accessible, but the administrator assures
me that in there DocumentRoot is /home/http  and UserDir is public_html.
So here is the .wgsiteconf file:

SERVER raven.cc.ukans.edu
PORT 80
DOCUMENTROOT /home/http
HTTPDCONF /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
WGSCRIPTALIAS cgiwrap/kups /homea/kups/public_html/cgi-bin
USERDIR public_html

I have a set of mailing lists that are archived into html in one
directory structure and I want to use glimpse to search them. The
glimpse output gets installed in a parallel directory, as in:

mail archive:  /homea/kups/public_html/maillist/polsannounce
webglimpse output dir:
/homea/kups/public_html/webglimpse_output/polsannounce

When I use the Directory method to build the webglimpse index, the links
are quite incomplete.  Like this:

Indexing
"/homea/kups/public_html/maillist/polsannounce/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html
/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html" ...

The link that shows in the index has no http://server part.  I think if
Webglimpse were working just right, the second one should be
"http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kups/maillist/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html"
rather than just the part starting with /pre....   

Right?

These links created by Webglimpse don't work, and I tried just
configuring so Webglimpse dumps its output right into
/homea/kups/public_html/maillist/polsannounce. That almost works, but
the addresses of the documents show up with a relative address of
/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html, which is not quite right. In that case it
should just be pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html.

The first times I tried to configure this, I was giving the wrong
httpd.conf file. I was giving the webglimpse the name of an old conf
file from a previous version of apache that the administrators had
forgotten to remove.  The Webglimpse did find that file and apparently
was able to make some use out of it, so I got different error, namely
that the index output looked like this:

Indexing
"/homea/kups/public_html/maillist/polsannounce/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/maillist/pre-1999-12-06/msg00099.html" ...

The http:// part of the address was OK, but not ~kups.  Now that I've
learned the httpd.conf file is not readable, an inserted it in the
wginstall process, I get the worse behavior described above.

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: pauljohn@ukans.edu
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
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