> 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...

Have you tried in the "Find" page to set a start date, or select "Show last: Month". This shoudl speed up searching quit a bit.

Yes, this works, but users inevitably forget to select "last week" or whatever, and just leave it blank, which means their search unintentionally takes a long time. It would be much better if one could configure it to default to something "fast".

Hi there, In the "Find" page, I changed the default of the "Show last" drop down box in the Entry Date section from the (unstated) "All time" to "Day", and added back in an "All Time" option at the very bottom.  This gives a default of searching the last day, and one has to think and select the period of time to search back on.

I did this on my 2.9.2-2475 version, recompiled and it works.  Two lines of code changed and even my cr*ppy coding was up to the task.  I don't know if Stefan would want to put this into the Master copy (I'll forward the changes if you want Stefan, but it's pretty easy if I can do it), but if you can edit and recompile (Eoin) I can tell you which to lines for immediate functionality.  Back up everything first, though!

It has just occurred to me that you may also have to check the non-English files, (./resorces/eloglang_xxxx) as this change introduces a new term "All time" that would need translation into the other lexicons.

By the way, in further testing, the "Show last" selection over-rides whatever two dates are selected, so if you ask for any entry in Dec 2014, but the "Show last" selects "week", nothing is found - very quickly.  I trust that is what you're after, Eoin.  I'll keep my change to the coding, but that's personal choice.

David.

I added a new optoin "Show last default = <days>", where one can pre-set the "Show last" drop-down box. I think this is a good idea, so now people can configure their elog to a certain default in this parameter. Of course all settings in the Find page are AND'ed together, so if one restricts the search to tha last week, but then looks for a date more in the past, the result will be zero by definition. The change is in the GIT repository. If you cannot recompile the code yourself, you have to wait for the next release.