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Windows installation notes
Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 13 May 2009 (20:19 UTC) by Lester Caine
Release 2.6 has a few niggles with windows servers which have been fixed in HEAD
THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS - Having identified a tar substitute, there is still ome work to make it functional inWindows
Additional software installation notes.
- Archive decompressors as command line version available e.g. (add those you want your users to use)
- tar There are a few windows binaries of tar, but bsdtar actually processes things the same as tar, so can be used in the same way as the Linux version.
- bzip2 and gzip are handled automatically by bsdtar
- Unzip from http://www.info-zip.org/ (Direct Download Link)
- Winrar from http://www.winrar-rog.com/ (Direct Download Link)
Tasks:
- Put the contents of all your decompressor packages into a folder on the webserver, e.g. "c:\webserver\tools\archiving". Make sure e.g. unzip and unrar are in the same folder (different ones work as well but this makes it easier).
- If you have unzip.exe and unzip32.exe in the archiving package, delete unzip.exe and rename unzip32.exe to unzip.exe.
- Go to "Start-Settings-System Settings-System-Advanced-Environment Variables-System Variables" look for "PATH" and edit it. Add the folder from above "c:\webserver\tools\archiving" (without quotes) after a semicolon ";" to the existing paths. Your "PATH" variable should now look like this (or similar): "c:\programme\imagemagick-6.3.1-q8;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\Webserver\tools\archiving".