Thanks Bill for all efforts,

I suspect that a possible reason of problem is somewhere in our Apache 
environment that I will check with our sysadmins. In the mean time I will 
deactivate the "date select feature" (that I do not use in my project yet).

I would also like to say that I am happy with another powerful feature that 
I discovered in the swish-e package  - - this elegant reentrance capability 
of swish.cgi and flexible parameterization features that I was looking for 
for my project in order to find a good way to offer search masks respecting 
both - specific DB contents as well as local preferences of our libraries

Victor Babitchev
The Austrian Library Network


At 04:56 06.06.2005, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 02:41:00PM -0700, Victor Babitchev wrote:
> > access to sbox   location (try/result): 1st/OK  2nd/500 3rd/OK 4th/500
>
>Try starting apache in single process mode using -X option.
>For example:
>
>  /usr/sbin/apache-perl -f $(pwd)/test.conf -X
>
>Those changing results seem like they might be coming from different
>apache processes.

> > .. the only thing till now that I found & that helps me in this story - is
> > to place 'x' in front of the hash line "date_ranges" in swish.cgi - then
> > all works fine!?
>
>That's disabling the date select feature.  That's fine, if you don't
>want to use that.
>
> > Also I believe that my swish-e 2.4.0 installation is OK, it was done 1 
> year
> > ago, all tests were OK and I had just fun & no troubles since then (Linux
> > suse 8.2,  2.4.20-64GB-SMP; Apache/1.3.27 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.3.1
> > mod_perl/1.27; SWISH-E 2.4.0;)
>
>I just installed 2.4.0 and changed my Apache config file to point to
>the new version:
>
>   <perl>
>     use lib '/home/moseley/2.4.0/lib/swish-e';
>     require "swish.cgi";
>   </perl>
>
>and no problems.  Don't know what else to tell you.
>
> >      <perl>
> >          use lib '/srv/www/cgi-bin/mediasrv';  # location of the 
> swish.cgi file
> >          use lib '/usr/local/lib/swish-e/perl';  # modules required by 
> swish.cgi
> >          require "swish.cgi";
> >      </perl>
>
>You should not need that second line.  When you installed swish-e the
>swish.cgi file was created with the correct paths based on your
>installation.
>
>Notice that the script already has the correct "use lib" line to find
>modules required by swish.cgi:
>
>moseley@bumby:~$ fgrep 2.4.0 2.4.0/lib/swish-e/swish.cgi
>use lib qw( /home/moseley/2.4.0/lib/swish-e/perl );
>         swish_binary    => '/home/moseley/2.4.0/bin/swish-e',  # Location 
> of swish-e binary
>                 INCLUDE_PATH    => '/home/moseley/2.4.0/share/swish-e',
>                 path                => '/home/moseley/2.4.0/share/swish-e',
>
>--
>Bill Moseley