i tried posting this to the newsgroup...but it didnt show up, even after a while...so i appologize if this shows up twice. im new to quixote and web scripting in general. I have made a command line application with python that allows collections of source files to be searched for identifiers, function calls, class definitions etc. for various languages. I have also made a web front end for this application using quixote. I have one problem though. My application is installed as a package in the site-packages directory under Lib in the python install location, much like the quixote demo is. My application uses a metakit database file to store indexes and other info. The database is also stored in the same package as the rest of the modules. My problem is that the database file has to be copied to my cgi-bin directory for the searches to be done from the web (otherwise it is not found). I would like it so that i dont have to copy my database to the cgi directory since it is constantly changing when i perform indexing. I am not sure if there is something that i need to configure with the apache server, quixote, or if there is something missing from my cgi script. here is the contents of my script #!C:\Python22\python.exe from quixote import enable_ptl, Publisher enable_ptl() app = Publisher('sscae') app.read_config("sscae.conf") app.setup_logs() app.publish_cgi() im using python 2.2 on windows xp pro quixote 0.5.1 apache server 2.0.44 any help will be much appreciated. amardeep singh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 [1] and get 2 months FREE*