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Thunderstone
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Setup help.

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Hello,

I'm trying to evaluate Webinator2.5(Free) on an NT4.0-SP4 box w/ IIS 3.0
and am getting an error. After running your Setup.exe I browse to
http://host/webinator/, automaticaly loading "default.htm" When I click
on "Run the _search_ interface" the URL changes to
'http://host/cgi-bin/texis.exe/webinator/search/" and returns the error
page below. I have verified the file D:\InetPub\wwwroot\webinator\search
does exist.

What did I miss?

Also, are the Admin/User manuals available as downloadable files (PDF or
whatever)?

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thunderstone's Webinator: Error</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H4 ALIGN=left> Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright &copy; 1996-1998 <A
HREF="http://www.thunderstone.com/">Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.</A><BR>
Free Webinator Version 2.5.908376588 of Oct 14, 1998 </H4>

<P>
<H2>Error</H2>

002 /webinator/search: Can't open source file
D:\InetPub\wwwroot\webinator\search: No such file or directory in the
function compilefile <BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Thank you for your help,
Kris Bolling
Anritsu Company, NARO IS Engineer
MailTo:kris@naro.us.anritsu.com
Voice: +1-408-776-8308 FAX: +1-408-776-1744
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Thunderstone
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Setup help.

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This error would indicate that the source file named didn't exist at
the time the script was run: "No such file or directory". A permissions
issue is possible -- does the user that CGI programs are run as have
read and write permission to that directory? (A perms problem is
unlikely, as the message would be "Permission denied" or the like.)
Double-check the existence of this file: make sure whatever method
you used to check it didn't silently "clean" filenames (eg. strip
extensions or something) and is really checking filenames, not URLs
that may be aliased. Check that http://host/webinator/search is
accessible: the "HTML" source of this should be the Vortex script
source. Make sure you're on the right host. :)


No. Both manuals are online in HTML and searchable.

-Kai


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