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Installation
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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