[cvsnt] New version of the ViewCvs installer for Windows

Tue Feb 3 23:59:15 GMT 2004

I need to sleep...
Disregard the bottom part of the message below!
I was testing using the wrong URL, it should be:
http://computername/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi
but I did not type in the viewcvs.cgi part because I have been working
with the roundup issue tracker for the last few weeks and that URL
just ends with a slash. I just mixed up my typing.

Good news is that the ViewCvs installer now seems to work for both
Apache and IIS and any of Python versions 2.1 to 2.3.

Good night,

Bo

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 00:45:17 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>There were a few bugs in the installer that have been fixed:
>1) Could only install if Python 2.2 was available.
>   Now detects 2.3 - 2.2 - 2.1 and then gives up.
>2) Bombed if the permission setting checkbox was checked.
>   Typo in the Innosetup code {tmp} was written as {temp}....
>
>These issues are fixed in the version now posted on my website.
>But there is now a different issue and I need some help with this:
>
>For some reason it now works well ONLY with Apache! After installing
>to IIS, apparently without problems, the result when browsing for
>ViewCvs is a permission denied page (error 403).
>I can't for the life of me understand what has happened since this
>worked fine before and I have not changed anything IIS specific.
>At least on my XP-Pro machine with IIS 5.1 I get the 403 error.
>My latest working installations with the old installer was on W2000
>Server machines and the install was done about mid-fall 2003.
>After this I have of course applied various MS Security patches to all
>of my PC:s. Could this have degraded the permissions such that ViewCvs
>can no longer be installed as simply as before?
>Don't know the answer as yet.
>
>Anyone is welcome with hints....
>
>/Bo
>
>/Bo
>(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)