Error with search

Remko Lodder remko at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 29 16:55:55 UTC 2006


Remko Lodder wrote:
> bessetdo at wanadoo.fr wrote:
>> I saw on your website "http://www.fr.freebsd.org/fr" that, when I type 
>> a word in the search field and I submit all, I see a Perl script, not 
>> search results. I don't think that this is normal and I wanted to warn 
>> you about that"
>>
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> 
> 
> Hi Bessetdo,
> 
> Thanks for the information, however I think that this is mirror
> related.
> 
> Currently it seems that the fr.freebsd.org/fr location is not
> parsing CGI files (like the perl script you used to search)
> at all and therefor displaying the contents of the perl script.
> More mirrors have this issue since they do not have the proper
> resources to make the cgi-files work.
> 
> Perhaps we should redirect this script on the fr/ language to
> www.freebsd.org and then the search application (like all the
> mirrors do with their local freebsd page (www.nl.freebsd.org
> redirects to www.freebsd.org if you use the search facilities)...
> 
> @Marc: Should we redirect the search facility to www.freebsd.org ?
> and are we allowed to modify that or do you want to do that yourself?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

OK spoke to soon about the french part itself.  When using
www.freebsd.org/fr it seems to work perfectly and the way it
should work. Though the www.fr.freebsd.org host does not do
that.  I will try to poke the maintainers of the site to check
whether they can fix this locally if possible...



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