Re: [webmin-l] Installing Webmin on Windows XP Pro Problem

[<ge...@gm...>]

Just a guess, I have not tried to do it myself, however... Have you tried to
install under cygwin?

http://www.cygwin.com/

rgrds,
Braulio Gergull

2006/8/22, Terry Allen <hm...@oz...>:
>
> Hi again,
>         I posted to the list over the weekend & it may have been lost
> amongst the other threads, so I'll try again.
>         I have run Webmin on OSX & other *nix variants for a long
> time, n problems with installation etc.... However, I have a client
> who needs an automated method to administer password protected
> directories on Apache under Windows XP Professional & I cannot find
> any other tool to do it for Windows other than Webmin, which is my
> preferred choice anyway.
>         However, I have been as yet unable to get Webmin installed,
> with the same errors as other people have posted but I have been
> unable to find a solution.
>         The process to get it installed so far is as follows:
>
> 1 - Install Activestate Perl - latest version
> 2 - Download/extract Webmin .zip file to C:\webmin
> 3 - On a command prompt enter - perl setup.pl
> 4 - Output from Webmin setup script is:
>
> Perl seems to be installed OK
> This is followed by:
>
>   a number of 'The system cannot find the path specified', followed by
>
> 'Failed to create temp directory C:\DOCUMEN~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp
>
>         At Jamie's suggestion, I have tried changing the path to temp
> to C:\temp & also tried c:\tmp, but the error stays pretty much the
> same - an empty directory gets created in C:\etc\ called Webmin &
> also C:\var\ - so the script begins to run it's course, but something
> is hanging it up.
>         To answer the first question, yes, I am running as an
> administrator user & I have also logged in as Administrator just to
> see if that worked but no luck yet.
>
>         Has anyone successfully overcome these obstacles & if so,
> could they please post to the list or to my address directly - I have
> been unable to find any further answers to this - any help is very
> much appreciated.
> --
>
>         Bye for now, Terry Allen
>
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