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Hi, we're installing webinator (paid version) and getting source file not found errors when we try OURHOST/scripts/texis.exe/webinator/dowalk. It seems like the HTML files weren't installed for one thing-- we weren't prompted for an document root, only a script root and application directory. Our webroot isn't in c:\inetpub\wwwroot -- is this an issue?

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You should find webinator\dowalk under your script root. The scripts are not stored in the webroot by default any more so that shouldn't be a factor. Is the webserver saying texis.exe is not found or is texis saying that dowalk is not found?

In your install dir you should find texis.cnf (windows might hide the extension, thinking it's a dialer file or something). Open it with notepad and remove the leading ; from the line
;CGI Debug = 0
Then try
http://YOURHOST/scripts/texis.exe/webin ... walk?-dump
to see where texis is looking for things.
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Texis is saying dowalk is not found. I'll try the texis.cnf fix.

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Tried the CGI Debug change and still getting:

!-- Texis RDBMS Copyright (c) 1992 - 2003 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc. -->
<!-- Texis Web Script Copyright (c) 1996 - 2003 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc. -->

<!-- 002 /webinator/dowalk: Can't open source file: No such file or directory -->
<!-- This message generated by ErrorScript. See http://www.thunderstone.com/vortexman/ -->
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Post by mark »

Oops, sorry. You also need to change the Debug value to 1 instead of 0.
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Yup, it is Debug = 1. Still getting that error... uh, do I need to restart IIS or something after making changes?
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OK, so we copied the webinator/dowalk to a place under wwwroot and it all works. We still dont know when/how we could specify that during the install -- or is it always just something we'll need to do 'by hand' if we ever do another install?
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Two things to check. First is ScriptRoot set in the texis.cnf file? That is where Texis should look to find the scripts. Secondly in the Registry there should be an InstallDir set under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Thunderstone Software which will point it to the location of the texis.cnf file.
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The problem might be read perms on texis.cnf. Make sure it's readable by everyone. Once texis.cnf is readable by the CGI user texis should start looking for it's scripts in the specified scripts directory instead of under the document root, as well as respecting the debug setting and allowing -dump.

You should comment out the debug setting, or set it to 0, in texis.cnf after it's working to prevent users from doing a -dump.
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OK, so I got to the gowalk tool and it claims to be doing a walk right now, but the top of the page has a bunch of:
002 E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\final\webinator\dowalk(maketables) 1106: Unable to open table E:\Appls\MORPH3\texis\default\db2\SYSCOLUM in the function opendbtbl

errors. Is this the same issue or some new fun? All this is on a dev box so I'm gonna leave the CGI debug on for now...
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