Both Bills - thank you for your answers, interesting information and tips!


 >Browsers have no place in testing web applications.
 >


OK, I did test it with GET as you did Bill, the picture is of course 
stronger than with browser but still very similar.

E.g. 4 - conseq. access GET-tries per each site (conf is further below).

access to sbox   location (try/result): 1st/OK  2nd/500 3rd/OK 4th/500
  -//-     sradio location (try/result): 1st/500 2nd/OK 3rd/500 4th/OK
  -//-     s123   location (try/result): 1st/500 2nd/500 3rd/500 
4th/500  <- all bad

 >That undefined subroutine error is not what I'd expect, by maybe you
 >didn't do a normal installation and files are not where they are
 >suppose to be.

.. the only thing till now that I found & that helps me in this story - is 
to place 'x' in front of the hash line "date_ranges" in swish.cgi - then 
all works fine!?

I do not understand exactly why the problem happens with "Undefined 
subroutine &SWISH::DateRanges::DateRangePars" although there is no problem 
with other packages from the same location exists e.g. for 
"package         => 'SWISH::PhraseHighlight'," or " package => 
'SWISH::TemplateDefault' };"  defined in swish.cgi?

Also I believe that my swish-e 2.4.0 installation is OK, it was done 1 year 
ago, all tests were OK and I had just fun & no troubles since then (Linux 
suse 8.2,  2.4.20-64GB-SMP; Apache/1.3.27 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.3.1 
mod_perl/1.27; SWISH-E 2.4.0;)

         /usr/local/bin/swish-e
         /usr/local/lib/swish-e/perl


Below also is my apache conf. file that I use for these tests in our INTRANET.

VirtualHost 192.168.3.6:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@bibvb.ac.at
     DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs/
     ServerName sputnik.bibvb.ac.at
     ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/sputnik.obvsg.at-error_log
     CustomLog /var/log/httpd/sputnik.obvsg.at-access_log common

     <perl>
         use lib '/srv/www/cgi-bin/mediasrv';  # location of the swish.cgi file
         use lib '/usr/local/lib/swish-e/perl';  # modules required by 
swish.cgi
         require "swish.cgi";
     </perl>

     <location /sradio>
         PerlSetVar Swish_Conf_File 
/work/obvsoft/evol/apps/media_server/swish/conf/.swishcgi-radio.conf
         allow from all
         SetHandler perl-script
         PerlHandler SwishSearch
     </location>

     <location /sbox>
         PerlSetVar Swish_Conf_File 
/work/obvsoft/evol/apps/media_server/swish/conf/.swishcgi-check_box.conf
         allow from all
         SetHandler perl-script
         PerlHandler SwishSearch
     </location>

     <location /s123>
         PerlSetVar Swish_Conf_File 
/work/obvsoft/evol/apps/media_server/swish/conf/.swishcgi.conf
         allow from all
         SetHandler perl-script
         PerlHandler SwishSearch
     </location>

     # 2005-06-05 mod_perl - implementing access to various sites using 
individual .. END
     # 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
   RewriteRule .* - [F]
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>


Many thanks again,
Victor Babitchev
The Austrian Library Network