I have Perl installed. i have Yabb installed, permissions setup and IIS5 running on a winxp system. I try to go to http://localhost and i dont get anything. I cant access the forums on my other computers on the LAN ive tried my 192. address and nothing.

I have it installed in the standard directories with
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\insidiouslegion\cgi-bin\yabb2\YaBB.pl
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
Ive been working on this for a few hours now and just cant seem to figure out what im doing wrong. Im thinking this must be a simple issue that i just cant figure out, like a home directory issue or something, but i cant find the issue.

Yeah ive done that, it explains alot of permissions but doesnt tell me anything about my problem...ive read like a dozen forums and i cant find the issue. admittingly im not the most experienced at this however I have set one up before but Yabb2 is entirely different than Yabb1x

ok Ive gone through the settings again and i still cant find the issue. i cant access my forums AT ALL. ive done the setup.pl file. and have my home directory set to
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

thus if i typed
http://locahost/insdiouslegion/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl

i should get my forum...correct?

Ive tried that also, but nothing works.

I am 100% sure its IIS5 5.1 to be exact.

Permissions were setup according to another post you did i read.

Yabb files are located in:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\insidiouslegion\public_html\

and ill read what you just posted

Ooops thats not my path

http://localhost/cgi-bin/yabb2/Setup.pl
is the path i removed the insidiouslegion folder and just did a direct copy the the htdocs folder.

The "it works" issue is resolved i had two versions of apache running.

I moved the files in the directories you indicated.
C:\xampp\htdocs\public_html\yabbfiles
C:\xampp\cgi-bin\cgi-bin\yabb2

but now im getting an Error 500 when i try to go to
http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin/yabb2/Setup.pl

Error 500
localhost
11/22/2010 8:21:10 PM
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

Umm ahhh -- lets see

1st, when you go to http://localhost - what do you get???  

If you aren't directed to the XAMPP page - all yellow, white and orange - your XAMPP install was not right.


IF it is OK - then - Run the perlinfo()  page option on the XAMPP page. It it works then Perl is working.


Did you chose (for some reason) to activate 'mod_perl' during the XAMPP setup screen???  If so, we need to fix that - its easy - just tell me


IF you got the XAMPP Page and mod_perl is not activated then -

lets just clean up a bit - delete whatever YaBB folders you may have copied in - just send 'em to the recycle bin.

BTW - there is no need for a xammp\cgi-bin\cgi-bin

-- Extract YaBB somewhere else -

-- copy the files from inside the cgi-bin download - yabb2 and below to the \xampp\cgi-bin folder

you should now have c:\xampp\cgi-bin\yabb2 and a group of files and folders under that.


-- now, copy the files from inside the public_html download - from yabbfiles and below
to htdocs.

you should now have c:\xampp\htdocs\yabbfiles and a group of files and folders under that.


-- type in http://localhost/cgi-bin/yabb2/Setup.pl

when you get to the set paths part, YaBB should auto-detect everything by itself

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Below is what it looks like on a running server - the one those guides are on, BTW -