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[edawg]

I have Apache 2 running on a local Windows Xp machine.  I am a noob to this all, but I can't get the install.bat file to work.  I have installed Perl 5 on the local machine.  Any help would be great.

Thanks,
edawg

[DanO]

** I can't get the install.bat file to work. **

You don't need to use the install.bat to set up CalendarScript. All it does is transfer the files to the server.

On a regular server, you can FTP the files there. In your situation, just copy the files to the server's file area.

Dan O.

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[edawg]

Thanks Dan,
The file area in Apache that you taling about is the cgi-bin folder?  One other question - Does Perl just need to be installed to C:\ or some specific location.

Thanks,
edawg

[DanO]

** The file area in Apache that you talking about is the cgi-bin folder? **

That depends on the way your server is set up. Some setups require CGI scripts to be installed into the cgi-bin directory in order for them to be run. Others setups allow CGI scripts to be located anywhere in the public server space and yet others allow the same thing except the file name extensions have to be set to .cgi

Check the server's documentation.

Just to make matters worse, some setups only allow CGI scripts to reside inside the cgi-bin directory but not their data files. The CalendarScript archive has both in the same directory structure.

If you have a choice, keep them outside the cgi-bin.

BTW. If you're planning on using the same CalendarScript installation on the web, I suggest you install it there from the start as you're going to run into similar server issues there and transferring an operational calendar can also be tricky. If you don't mind starting over from scratch when the time comes to go on-line, by all means try playing with it on your own server.

JMO

Dan O.

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