Upgrade from Webinator 4 to 5.

twu · Post by **twu** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:54 am

Hi, We are currently using Webinator site Indexer Version 4, and want to upgrade to Version 5.1. Just wonderring what is the right way to do this? Do I need to uninstall the old version and then install the new one? the operating system is Win2000, Webinator runs as a CGI program.
Thanks.

Post by **mark** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:03 am

You can just install over the top of version 4. You should backup the INSTALLDIR/texis/testdb directory beforehand though. The new installer may overwrite it and that's where all of your profile settings are stored.

twu · Post by **twu** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:15 am

Thanks Mark. I did install the Version 5 op top of version 4. and now the admin page doesn't work, I am getting the Vortex Error, showing as the following:
Webinator was unable to process the requested URL:

http://mysite.com/scripts/texis.exe/webinator/dowalk/

Please ask the site administrator of www.mysite.com to check vortex.log for problems.

The following error message showing in Vortex.log:
/Webinator/dowalk: Can't open source file c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Webinator\dowalk: No such file or directory

The following Variables showing when using dowalk?-dump:
Variables
$urlroot='/scripts/texis.exe/Webinator/dowalk'
$pathroot='/Webinator/dowalk'
$sourcepath='c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Webinator\dowalk'

Post by **mark** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:02 pm

Not sure what happened with the install, but the default place for scripts is no longer in wwwroot, it's INSTALLDIR/texis/scripts. Perhaps your config is still pointing to the old location. Edit INSTALLDIR/texis.cnf with notepad and change
ScriptRoot = c:\inetpub\wwwroot
to
;ScriptRoot = c:\inetpub\wwwroot
(comment it out with a leading ; )

That should make it look in the new place for the scripts.

twu · Post by **twu** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:14 pm

I checked the texis.cnf, I don't see a line like
ScriptRoot = c:\inetpub\wwwroot
The only similiar line is
;ScriptRoot = %INSTALLDIR%\texis\scripts
I change the line above to
ScriptRoot = %INSTALLDIR%\texis\scripts

Now I am getting the following error in Vortex.log:
/Webinator/dowalk:5795: Unknown/illegal format code `Q' in <fmt> string

Please advise. Thanks.

Post by **mark** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:41 pm

Sounds like you still have an old texis.exe running in the webserver. Check your CGI directory to make sure the newer texis.exe from INSTALLDIR is copied there.

twu · Post by **twu** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:46 pm

Thanks Mark. I replced the texis.exe, and it works now.

Post by **mark** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:01 pm

That would explain the first problem you encountered too. No config edit was needed probably.