Okay, I'm having a devil of a time here.  I installed ActivePerl 5.8.8.820.  I set up a CGI-BIN folder in IIS 5.0, I set a new application for the folder and gave it SCRIPT and EXECUTABLES permissions, the folder has READ and WRITE permissions, and I made sure that PERL was functioning with a little HELLO WORLD script that used #!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe



When I go to the Setup.pl page, it tells me (with a nicely formatted error page) this:

Configuration Issues ...
Setup has determined that you must manually edit the paths to Settings.pl or other core files. If you need help, contact E-Blah technical support.

The following may help you figure out what your paths are:
Document Root:
Script name: D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\nightfalltoronto.com\cgi-bin\forum\setup.pl
File(s) Not Loaded: ./Settings.pl, ./Settings_Default.pl
Reason for failure: No such file or directory

Any idea what gives?

It's true that there is no Settings.pl in the directory, just the Settings_Default.pl that shipped with the product.  I followed the permissions directions included at ./installnew/ with respect to the actual file and folders in the ./cgi-bin/forums/ directory.

Thank you for your time and effort in responding.

Okie Dokie.  I got it.  I had to do a better job at forums diving.

The key elements for me were changing:


in Settings_Default:
$root = "D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nightfalltoronto.com/cgi-bin/forum";

(note that the slashes are the wrong way for Windows)

$bdocsdir2 = "D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nightfalltoronto.com/blahdocs";

in Setup.pl

     if(!SetupLoad('D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nightfalltoronto.com/cgi-bin/forum/Settings.pl',1) || !SetupLoad("$code/QuickCore.pl",1)) {
          InstallConfig() if(!SetupLoad('D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nightfalltoronto.com/cgi-bin/forum/Settings_Default.pl',1) || !SetupLoad("$code/QuickCore.pl",1));
     }

and finally in blah.pl

require(''D:/Inetpub/wwwroot/nightfalltoronto.com/cgi-bin/forum/Settings.pl') || RunSetup();

At the top of settings.pl and blah.pl I noted this:

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe


Hopefully that's more search fodder for the next person.