vanillasite.at :: install-win32

Extract the Vanilla win32 distribution (vanilla-x.y.z.zip) to a directory of your choice (e.g. C:\vanilla\)

Download REBOL/Core from http://www.rebol.com/platforms.shtml. You can use the direct link http://www.rebol.com/downloads/core031.zip if you like.

Extract rebol031.exe from the REBOL/Core .zip file, and put rebol031.exe in your Vanilla directory (e.g. C:\vanilla\). rebol031.exe is the only file we'll need from the .zip

Download Apache from http://httpd.apache.org/ and install it. Note (as in "write down" :) the path to your Apache installation.

Copy wrapper.cgi and vanilla.r.conf into Apache's cgi-bin directory, which is a subdirectory in the directory you've installed Apache to in the previous step.

Rename wrapper.cgi to vanilla.cgi and vanilla.r.conf to vanilla.cgi.conf.

Edit vanilla.cgi with your favorite text editor and change the first line to point to your REBOL/Core executable (e.g. change it to #!c:\vanilla\rebol031.exe -cs).

You're almost done! Edit vanilla.cgi.conf and adapt at least vanilla-space-identifier and vanilla-root:
- Use some random string as vanilla-space-identifier, for example the current date and time (e.g. vanilla-space-identifier: "2003-09-22 01:51").
- vanilla-root must point to your Vanilla installation directory, but in REBOL notation. (e.g. vanilla-root: "/C/vanilla/" if your vanilla is in C:\vanilla\). Do not forget the trailing slash! (e.g. "/C/vanilla/" but not "/C/vanilla").
That's it for now, you should now be able to access your Vanilla instance thru a browser, try http://localhost/cgi-bin/vanilla.cgi.