Most likely a path or permission problem.

  1. Troubleshoot by running

    ./wgreindex

    on the command line from the archive directory as an appropriately privileged user. Examine the command

    output, .wg_log and .wg_err files.

  2. Try turning off prefiltering (unless you are indexing PDFs or other binary files).

  3. Check that the paths and URLs in the

    .wg_toindex

    file are correct. If retrieving remote files, check the contents of files in the .remote subdirectory.

  4. Check the extensions of the files to be indexed against the list of allowed extensions in the file

    .wgfilter-index

  5. If the files to be indexed are not plain text, make sure they have a working filter installed in the file

    .glimpse_filters

  6. If you are configured to use an alternate file end mark (in order to index files with spaces in the names), make sure you have made the matching modification to both Glimpse and Webglimpse.