It seems that the Web Tools distribution does not install correctly on Windows 2000 Professional.
I am trying to evaluate SAP DB, so I followed the Windows installation instructions on http://www.sapdb.org/sap_db_nt.htm. First, I installed the server according to the instructions in serverinst_73eng.pdf, then rebooted the computer. Then I installed the Web Tools according to the instructions in webtoolinst_73eng.pdf (which is a lot harder to follow than the online hypertext version!) and rebooted again. Then I opened a command prompt window and started the SAP DB web server, I think, but my browser couldn't open a page. The installation instructions encourage users to edit the Windows registry (bad form!), so I opened the registry and found that the key for the web server was missing. I created the default key and added the documented default values to it, but still the web server didn't produce a page for my browser. I noticed that the Web Tools (web) folder, which was installed on my disk, includes a config subfolder, and the config folder has a registry configuration file (wa.reg) and a mime.types file. The registry file was apparently never run and it seems to include a lot of settings besides the ones that are documented in the installation guide, and some of its settings are inappropriate for my system (in particular, the file paths from c:\sapdb-web and c:\temp instead of the actual paths on my system). The mime.types file is one level below the web folder, which the installation guide suggests, in the documented default registry settings, is where it should be. Also, there is an index.html file in the sapdb/depend/Documents folder, but none in the sapdb/web or sapdb/web/Documents folder, despite that index.html is documented as the SAP DB webserver's default document and sapdb/web/Documents is the default DocumentRoot. It seems to me that this Web Tools package must have been released without any testing of whether it correctly installs the SAP DB web server. What a mess! Is there another web tools package coming out, or is there a procedure I should follow to get this software installed and working? I have high hopes for using SAP DB and installing it for my customers, but so far, nothing works. Richard _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
