Yes and no :-). The files are available on the webserver because they 
are on the same machine, but most of the results are not available via 
http:// or file:// protocol.

The location of my webservers docroot is C:\Programme\xampp\htdocs, the 
swish-cgi is located in C:\Programme\xampp\cgi-bin.
The search results are from the whole drive C:\. At the moment I can 
only open search results in C:\Programme\xampp\htdocs by clicking the link,
but I can not open results like c:\temp\test.doc with a click on the 
swishdocpath-link. If I use a replace rule to change the link to 
file:///c:/temp/test.doc,
I also can not open the document, because this document is outside of 
the webservers document root. This is imo the normal behavior of a 
webserver.

If I want to open files from outside the document root I found a 
workaround.
I made the following modifications in the apache http.conf file:

Alias /localC "C:/"
<Directory "C:/">
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Now the whole drive C is available for the webserver via http (this is 
imo a security problem) and with ´ReplaceRules replace "c:/" "/localC"´ 
in my swish.conf
I can open the search result by clicking the modified swishdocpath-link 
http://localhost/localC/temp/test.doc. So far so good - the problem is 
solved, but now I wanted
to know if there is a better solution for my problem.

Michael




Bill Moseley schrieb:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:12:18PM -0800, Michael Erdmann wrote:
>   
>> The problem is I can not open results on my local hard-drives by 
>> clicking the link_property-link (swishdocpath) (for example 
>> file:///C:/somedirectory/somefile.pdf), because the result documents are 
>> outside of the apache documentroot. Copy the link and open it direct in 
>> the webbrowser works - that means, the link is ok. Opening a document 
>> from a web-location works with the prepend_path parameter.
>>     
>
> The files are available on the web server?  Check out ReplaceRules.
>
>