Install step gets error starting Apache after Include foswiki.conf

After I add the Include foswiki.conf in my httpd.conf, I get the error below re-starting Apache.

Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Thanks, Rick

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the best choice is to add or install apache's mod_rewrite - then it will 'just work'

if thats not an option, you'll need to remove those portions of the foswiki.conf - as your apache setup doesn't support them.

-- SvenDowideit - 13 Jan 2009

Editing httpd.conf remove the # in front of -> LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
and now I get past that error code.

In my next installation step, I try to execute configure.pl and I get:

[Tue Jan 13 09:25:00 2009] [error] [client 10.71.225.72] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: configure.pl
[Tue Jan 13 09:25:00 2009] [error] [client 10.71.225.72] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: D:/Foswiki/bin/configure.pl

I can see D:/Foswiki/bin/configure.pl and that location is correct. Perhaps there is something inside D:/Foswiki/bin/configure.pl that must be updated?

-- RickZoll - 13 Jan 2009

It now looks like the shebank/hashbank line won't work. Instead of #!/usr/bin/perl, I changed configure.pl and view.pl:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
#####/usr/bin/perl -wT

So now I startup configure and made changes as described in install doc but when I go to view.pl, any selection gets an error like:

The requested URL /foswiki/bin/view/Sandbox/WebHome was not found on this server.

The requested URL /foswiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome was not found on this server.

So the view.pl functionality is not working. Any suggestions?

-- RickZoll - 13 Jan 2009

Is there anyone familiar with implementing foswiki on windows who can help me with this?

-- RickZoll - 14 Jan 2009

I think the change listed below solved my problem.

| Wed Jan 14 18:27:59 2009 | | {ScriptSuffix} | $Foswiki::cfg{ScriptSuffix} = '.pl';

-- RickZoll - 14 Jan 2009