[SPT/CWIS] verboten

[ml1047 at columbia.edu]

Ed,

If I move the installation as directed, will the URL I was using to
get to the CWIS--Install.php change from

http://192.168.1.119/~ml5003/CWIS--Install.php

to

http://192.168.1.119/CWIS--Install.php?

ML

Quoting Edward Almasy <ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu>:

> On May 26, 2006, at 12:57 PM, ml1047 at columbia.edu wrote:
> > I just finished installing, to a point, version 1.4.0 of CWIS
> on my
> > iBook.
> > I received the following message in at the command line:
> > The command-line portion of the installation has finished
> > successfully.
> > To complete installation of CWIS go to:
> >      http://192.168.1.119/~ml5003/CWIS--Install.php
> > with your web browser and follow the instructions given there.
> >
> > However, when I go to the browser as instructed, I get
> > Forbidden
> > You don't have permission to access /~ml5003/CWIS--Install.php
> on
> > this server
>
>     This could be a matter of your web server being configured to
> disallow
>     using links in user home directories, since CWIS--Install.php
> is
> actually
>     a soft link to SPT--Install.php.  If that's the case there
> are
> several
>     ways to get around it (other than adjusting the Apache
> configuration);
>     the one I think I've used was to just create a subdirectory
> in the
>     "public" web directory, give myself permissions to that
> directory,
> and
>     then install CWIS there.  (On OS X I think that public
> directory is
>     usually "/Library/WebServer/Documents".)
>
>     Ed
>
>
>     P.S.  Since CWIS--Install.php is a link to SPT--Install.php,
> it may
>     seem like an easy work-around would be just to load
> SPT--Install.php
>     directly, however this won't work both because CWIS expects
> it to be
>     called by the CWIS--Install name, and because the web server
> will
>     still complain when you try to load any other pages that are
> linked.
>
>
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