We have ActivePerl Build 5.009 and DBMan "installed" on WinNT Server 4.0 with IIS 4.0. We believe that we have followed the DBMan installation instructions faithfully, but cannot get it to work. We have also read all the relevant messages in this forum.

Given that most people seem to be able to get it to work, I have come to the conclusion that I don't understand how to invoke the demo and what I am supposed to see when I do! Once installed according to the instructions, if I click on the index.htm file in the dbman/auth folder, what should happen? Currently, my system opens a DOS window, scrolls what appears to be a stack of Environmental Variables, and closes the DOS window.

Sounds like your perl isn't configured properly. Check out the step by step walkthrough at setting up perl and cgi at:

http://www.activestate.com/...2/perlwin32faq6.html

Cheers,

Alex

The index.htm file in the auth folder is there to prevent an outside user from getting a listing of the auth directory. It is not connected with starting the script.

You need to call the db.cgi script from your url. Most of the time it's something like

http://www.server.com/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi

On my system, since my account is at

http://www.drizzle.com/~hall/

I can call the script which is in a folder within the cgi-bin called "dbmod" by

http://www.drizzle.com/~hall/cgi-bin/dbmod/db.cgi

If you want to see what the database will look like when you first log on, that's pretty close to the default setup (I've made a couple of changes on that script, but not many).



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JPD

Thanks. I went to the URL you indicated - now I know how to recognize success. However, when I go to my db.cgi (renamed to db.pl) I get a DOS window (title bar reads c:/Perl/bin/perl.exe) that spools a series of apparent Environmental Variables. Apparently, one or more of my configuration settings is wrong (I'm guessing here). Based on the file locations you described earlier, could you tell me what you have your path variables set to?

Thank you very much for you help.