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Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help!

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Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help!
I am having such difficulty trying to install dbman on my windows server. I have installed it on "many" Unix servers with absolutely no problem. This is driving me crazy...

The error that I am getting is simply:
DBMan encountered an internal error. Please enable debugging to view.

In my db.pl file the db_script_path is set as follows:
$db_script_path = 'web\webster-hall\newversion\content\areyouhot';

In my default.cfg file my paths are as follows:
# File and URL's
# --------------------------------------------------------

# URL of the directory dbman resides in. No Trailing Slash Please.
$db_dir_url = "
http://63.151.41.241/newversion/content/areyourhot";
# URL of dbman.
$db_script_url = $db_dir_url . "/db.pl";
# Full Path and File name of the database file.
$db_file_name = $db_script_path . "/default.db";
# Full path and file name of the counter file.
$db_id_file_name = $db_script_path . "/default.count";
# Full path and file name of the authorization directory.
$auth_dir = $db_script_path . "/auth";
# Full path and file name of the password file.
$auth_pw_file = $db_script_path . "/default.pass";
# Full path and file name of the log file.
$auth_log_file = $db_script_path . "/default.log";
# Full path and file name of the html routines.
require $db_script_path . "/html.pl";


I turned the flock off and changed the quotes to ' instead of " at the db_script_path. I also removed the perl location string at the top of the code page. I can't understand what the problem is. Can anyone PLEASE offer assistance. I have to get this project done and I am stumped Unsure


Cher
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Re: [chronisca] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
Never messed with dbman on win2k... but something that jumped out at me was this:

$db_script_path = 'web\webster-hall\newversion\content\areyouhot';

shouldn't it be?:

$db_script_path = '\web\webster-hall\newversion\content\areyouhot';

I apologize in advance if this is totally incorrect. Hope you find the solution, Mike.


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Re: [chronisca] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
>>$db_script_path = 'web\webster-hall\newversion\content\areyouhot';
<<

That path looks wrong.
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Re: [Watts] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
Tried it but it didn't work. I know it has to be something really simple that I am just not seeing. Unsure


Cher
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Re: [PaulW] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
That is the path that came up when I got a CGI error. I don't know what else the path to the root on the server could be. I'm kinda dumb with windows.


Cher
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Re: [chronisca] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
Have you asked your host?
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Re: [chronisca] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
something that always sticks out with windows (and correct me if i am wrong with win2K) paths to things i always thought werent set as dir1\subdir1\... but as drive:/dir1/subdir1/

Although i might be missing something completely here, it can always be something that is soo simple Smile
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Re: [PBarr] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
Check out this thread as it has helped many:

Subject: DBMan in a Windows environment - Checklist
AstroBoy 12-Oct-00
Thread reference: http://gossamer-threads.com/p/108916



Unoffical DBMan FAQ

http://creativecomputingweb.com/dbman/index.shtml/
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Re: [LoisC] Windows 2000 Installation Nightmare - Please help! In reply to
Lois,

Once again you are the BEST!!! I have been trying to figure this out for weeks and now it's working fine!

Thanks you SOOOOOOOOOO much!!!
Cher