> I am trying to run eLog under Apache 2 on my FreeBSD 5.3 server.  I started
> the daemon with "elogd -n <my hostname> -p 8080" and when I connect to my
> server on that port, I get a 500 server configuration error.  The Apache log
> contains this:
> 
> malformed header from script. Bad header=Please specify hostname.: elog

- make sure your proxy definition in httpd.conf is correct and it uses port 8080
- start elogd with the "-v" flag to see the communication between Apache and elogd
- maybe you might need an "URL = http://<my hostname>/<elog dir>/" in the config
file

> > I am trying to run eLog under Apache 2 on my FreeBSD 5.3 server.  I started
> > the daemon with "elogd -n <my hostname> -p 8080" and when I connect to my
> > server on that port, I get a 500 server configuration error.  The Apache log
> > contains this:
> > 
> > malformed header from script. Bad header=Please specify hostname.: elog
> 
> - make sure your proxy definition in httpd.conf is correct and it uses port 8080
> - start elogd with the "-v" flag to see the communication between Apache and elogd
> - maybe you might need an "URL = http://<my hostname>/<elog dir>/" in the config
> file

No luck.  I have the proxy definition in my httpd.conf file.  I have the URL parameter
in my elogd.cfg file.

Here is the command line I am using to start the daemon:

elogd -v -D -n <myhost> -p 8080 -l <myhost>/cgi-bin/elog/logbooks -c
/usr/local/server/apache/cgi-bin/elog/elogd.cfg

With the -v argument, here are the messages I get in /var/log/messages:

elogd 2.5.7-1 built Feb 14 2005, 09:55:19 
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: revision 1.558
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Config file  :
/usr/local/server/apache/cgi-bin/elog/elogd.cfg
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Resource dir : /usr/local/server/apache/cgi-bin/elog/
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Logbook dir  :
/usr/local/server/apache/cgi-bin/elog/logbooks/
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Falling back to default group "elog"
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Group "elog" not found
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Falling back to default group "nogroup"
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Falling back to default user "elog"
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: User "elog" not found
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Falling back to default user "nobody"
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Indexing logbook "demo" ... 
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]:   ID   1, 011108a.log, ofs     0, thead, MD5=
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: E4
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 25
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 4C
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: B8
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: AD
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 4E
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 88
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 68
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 08
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 91
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: C9
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 4D
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 1E
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: B7
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: CB
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: C3
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: 
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: After sort:
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]:   ID   1, 011108a.log, ofs     0
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: ok
Feb 14 14:38:28 onion elogd[34579]: Server listening on port 8080 ...

I am still getting the exact same error in my Apache log.

Any more ideas?

-Erich-

> No luck.  I have the proxy definition in my httpd.conf file.  I have the URL parameter
> in my elogd.cfg file.

Can you show me the proxy definition? I hope you don't treat elogd as a CGI script...

As I wrote you by mail, I implemented your idea in the following way. As you
say, it's only working on Gecko based systems. I did not implement additional
configuration parameters, but made it through the CSS file:

- adding a new CSS style "attachmentframe" around all attachments
- adding class "attachmentframe" to the 'default.css' like:

.attachmentframe {
  border:1px solid grey;
  border-top:1px solid lightgrey;
  border-left:1px solid lightgrey;
  background-color:white;
  padding:5px;
}

.attachmentframe img {
    max-width:100%;
}

The latter restricts the image size to 100%, which is the width of the 
browser window. I like it that, but of course you can write 200px or 
anything else. Please find the modified elogd.c and default.css under CVS.

Have a look at http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Contributions/10

> There is a problem with the 'Show Attributes' option
> causing the 'Format ...' options to be ignored.
> 
> See attachment for patch.

Thanks a lot. I applied your patch and committed the changes to CVS.

> If you have a space in a logbook name and you enable password list, then 
> the "List" menu option forces you to the login page each time.
> The URL says "aaa+bbb", but when you do not have passwords enabled, the 
> URL is "aaa bbb"

Thanks for reporting this. I fixed it in the current CVS version.

> > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> 

> > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p>
> 
> Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be
> replaced?

uhmm...

http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7

the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also
in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example)

I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
printing-to-the-browser-time ..