[Xapian-discuss] Re: Getting Omega to execute and generate XML

[Floris Bos]

Hi Ralf,

Thanks again for the info. I indeed mixed up a few things (putting the 
templates in the cgi dir wasn't very smart). I've used your comments and 
have been able to call omega the right way. However now I get the following 
error in my browser window when calling Omega: this program cannot run in 
DOS mode (and after that a whole lot of strange signs - the source code of 
the omega executable I guess).

I'm running on a Windows XP pc with Cygwin installed on it. However I have 
my webserver (Apache) and PHP installed on Windows (not build under Cygwin). 
I thought I would be able to build Omega under Cygwin and than use it in 
combination with my Apache webserver that runs in my Windows XP environment. 
Now I'm starting to get the feeling that in order to work with Omega I need 
to build Apache under Cygwin and serve my webpage from there (this would 
mean I also have to build PHP and Mysql within Cygwin). Is this the case?
I thougt that I would be able to call Omega straight from Apache running in 
Windows XP environment because I can also use scriptindex.exe like this.

By the way, my omega config file is in this dir: C:\cygwin\home\Omega\etc

It looks like this:

database_dir /home/omega/data
template_dir /home/omega/templates
log_dir /var/log/omega

I hope you can help me understand this better because I'm getting confused 
by building under Cygwin wether programs build under Cygwin can only be used 
from within the Cygwin environment or not.

Thanks,

Floris