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When I attempt to activate my license with rlm_act_request(), I get an HTTP error 404 (File not found). What does this mean?

April 26, 2017activate attempt Error file http license mean rlm_act_request

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When I attempt to activate my license with rlm_act_request(), I get an HTTP error 404 (File not found). What does this mean?

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HTTP error 404 (File Not Found) means that the web server could not find the CGI program which is used to process the request. In this case, the CGI program is _mklic in the cgi-bin directory of the webserver (e.g. demo_mklic for a demo kit). This can happen if you have not installed the license generator in the cgi-bin directory, or if you have entered an incorrect ISV name as the 3rd parameter to the rlm_act_request() call. Q402. When I attempt to activate my license with rlm_act_request(), I get RLM error -134 (Bad return data from webserver (no status)). What does this mean? This error (-134, Bad return data from webserver) most likely means that there is a problem with the license generator, _mklic. Try running the license generator by hand on the webserver machine. When you run it from the command line, you should see output similar to the following: % demo_mklic Content-type: text/html If you get no output, or the program fails in some way, it’s likely that you hav