On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:19:35PM -0800, naudefj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following errors in the Apache error_log when searching:
> 
> [Mon Jan 23 00:11:56 2006] [error] [client 198.54.202.226] query aborted: 
> Swish returned unknown output: 'Failed to exec Swish'
> [Mon Jan 23 00:11:56 2006] [error] [client 198.54.202.226] Child process 
> Failed to exec '../swish/bin/swish-e' Error: Permission denied at search.cgi 
> line 2138.
> [Mon Jan 23 00:11:56 2006] [error] [client 198.54.202.226] Can't exec 
> "../swish/bin/swish-e": Permission denied at search.cgi line 2137.
> 
> I can execute swish from the command line, but not from the supplied Perl 
> script - search.cgi. Any idea what's going on here?

Yes, the web server doesn't have permission to run swish.

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