WINDOWS NT4+IIS3 installation1


Posted by Support , Nov 07,1999,00:33 Post Reply      Main Forum
Downloaded PERL 5.005 from http://www.activestate.com
Choose extension plx for perl CGI script.

Server: Microsoft-IIS/3.0
OS : MSWin32

1) Create master configuration dir
c:\abmasterd
and set
$master_cfg_dir = 'c:/abmasterd'; #note the forward slash

2) Access http://domain/cgi-bin/anyboard.plx/?cmd=sinfo&all=1 command
The PATH_INO and PATH looks bad.
We need to set the $fix_XXXX variables to get around this:

D:\iis\www is the top level web directory

$abmain::fix_top_dir="d:/iis/www"; $abmain::fix_top_url="http://domain";
$abmain::fix_cgi_url="http://domain/cgi-bin/anyboard.plx";

3) With IIS4, we can create forums via web interface, for IIS3,
we had to manually create the forum directories.

At the command prompt:

cd d:\iis\www
mkdir anyboard
cd anyboard
mkdir posts postdata archive polls uploads .fYz

Note this corresponds to a forum with virtual path equal to /anyboard/

We need to create an empty file .forum_cfg to do this:
use edit command to create a empty file named temp
then at the command prompt

move temp .forum_cfg

4) Now we have setup all the directories, we can login the forum as
admin, the URL is
http://domain/cgi-bin/anyboard.plx/anyboard?cmd=log

The admin login page show up, login with
userid admin and no password.

5) At the amdin panel
choose regen the forum and the forum page is created

6) change admin name/password


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