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Windows

Note -- Windows 95 users must install Winsock version 2.0. from Microsoft:
To download <a href=http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/bin/W95ws2setup.exe>Click here</a>


Unzip Caravan_windows.zip and run setup. The setup process starts and you are prompted for certain parameters. You must specify the
following parameters.

Port Number: TCP/IP port number to be used by Caravan Business Server. (Example 8182)

The default port number is 80.  If you have any other application running on your machine (say IIS), specify a different port number.

On successful installation, a message to that effect is displayed. Setup creates a shortcut to Caravan Business Server on the desktop as
well as in the program group.

Setup does the following actions.

  • Copies files to respective directories.
  •       
  • Creates Caravan configuration file HTTP.CNF
  •       
  • Creates a batch file to launch Caravan and a shortcut for the same.
    (sets environment variable:  set caravan={path of caravan}  )





Linux

Use qunzip to extract caravan_linux.tar.gz to any folder. Now use tar to extract caravan_linux.tar to say /usr. It will create directories
as follows:

/usr/caravan - root folder for Caravan
/usr/caravan/template -template folder for Caravan.(dynamic html files)
/usr/caravan/doc - documenet folder for Caravan (static HTML files)/usr/caravan/db - Database directory for Caravan

The root folder will contain files caravan.exe file and configuration file(httpd.cnf).

You will need to set the environment variable as follows:
caravan={path of caravan};export caravan


OS/2
Note : You can install Caravan on partitions formatted with HPFS file system.Unzip CARAVAN_OS2.ZIP to C:\ drive with restore directory
path option in pkzip.exe. It will create directories as follows:

c:\caravan - root folder for Caravan

c:\caravan\template -template folder for Caravan.(dynamic html files)

c:\caravan\doc - documenet folder for Caravan (static HTML files)

c:\caravan\db - Database directory for Caravan

The root folder will contain files caravan.exe file and configuration file(httpd.cnf).

A batch file StartCBS.bat will also get created.

--------------Sample Start  --------

SET caravan=c:\caravan      
start caravan  
-------------end of sample-------------------


      
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