[SPT/CWIS] verboten

[Edward Almasy]

On May 26, 2006, at 12:57 PM, ml1047 at columbia.edu wrote:
> I just finished installing, to a point, version 1.4.0 of CWIS on my
> iBook.
> I received the following message in at the command line:
> The command-line portion of the installation has finished
> successfully.
> To complete installation of CWIS go to:
>      http://192.168.1.119/~ml5003/CWIS--Install.php
> with your web browser and follow the instructions given there.
>
> However, when I go to the browser as instructed, I get
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /~ml5003/CWIS--Install.php on
> this server

    This could be a matter of your web server being configured to 
disallow
    using links in user home directories, since CWIS--Install.php is 
actually
    a soft link to SPT--Install.php.  If that's the case there are 
several
    ways to get around it (other than adjusting the Apache 
configuration);
    the one I think I've used was to just create a subdirectory in the
    "public" web directory, give myself permissions to that directory, 
and
    then install CWIS there.  (On OS X I think that public directory is
    usually "/Library/WebServer/Documents".)

    Ed


    P.S.  Since CWIS--Install.php is a link to SPT--Install.php, it may
    seem like an easy work-around would be just to load SPT--Install.php
    directly, however this won't work both because CWIS expects it to be
    called by the CWIS--Install name, and because the web server will
    still complain when you try to load any other pages that are linked.


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