Does WWWBoard run on Windows NT4.0?
Short Answer: WWWBoard was originally written to run on a Unix based system, but it can be modified to run on other platforms. Long Answer: I have received the following two messages about converting WWWBoard to NT. It doesn’t sound difficult, however I do not guarauntee that either of the following solutions will work for you: Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 16:03:26 -0400 From: Jon Robison Subject: WWWBoard on NT – One Solution I would like to offer the solution I found. On systems using Win Nt 4.0 Server, with IIS, and using Perl.exe associated with .pl files rather than PerlIS, the following is the only change needed: For the $basedir variable, use double backslashes. i.e., mine is set to: “c:\\inetsrv\\wwwroot\\……….\\wwwboard” This was the only change needed beyond ensuring read/write permission for both the main board directory (wwwboard) and it subdirectory /messages. From: Steve Whan Subject: WWWBoard on NT 4.0 We only had to make two types of fixes: 1) $basedir = “q:\\InetPub\\ww
