Installing Server on Windows – Almost there…I think

[raul]

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Hello!

First of all, thanks for your interest in Pandora.
As you can see if you have read the forum. WINDOWS ISN’T A SUPPORTED PLATFORM.

You can comment the Perl code to avoid that message and the server will run.

We have discussed several times about that issue, so I only can referer you to the forums where this topic was commented:

http://www.openideas.info/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=242

Thanks.

Raul

Hi Guys

Pandora looks great, and I’ve been following Wesley Brosens install guide for windows servers.
http://members.lycos.nl/crazybest/pandora/pandora_windows_installation_guide.html

I’ve discovered things like not all versions have the required perl packages, but found ActivePerl-5.8.8.819-MSWin32-x86-267479 to be ok.

I seem to be stuck at one minor bit that is killing me.
When running the batch file from a command prompt, I get…

Pandora Server 1.2 Build PS061123 Copyright (c) 2004-2006 ArticaST
This program is Free Software, licensed under the terms of GPL License v2 or lat
er.
You can download latest versions and documentation at http://pandora.sourceforge
.net.

[ERROR] This isn’t GNU/Linux. Pandora Server is only OFFICIALLY supported in GNU
/Linux.
Contact us if you require assistance running Pandora Server in other OS.

Two questions I suppose, can this error checking be turned off? Also what should happen when I run the script, should it stay running until I kill it?
Currently with that error its just returning to the command prompt.

Any help appreciated.

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Thanks for the reply. I was aware that it wasn’t officially supported, but I figured a web forum would be a good place to talk it over with other like minded people who might have a suggestion.

I’ll have a look myself and see if I can find where it checks the version so I can remove that. Perhaps in future you could have it just send a warning to the log file?

Regards

Robert

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Thanks for the reply. I was aware that it wasn’t officially supported, but I figured a web forum would be a good place to talk it over with other like minded people who might have a suggestion.

I’ll have a look myself and see if I can find where it checks the version so I can remove that. Perhaps in future you could have it just send a warning to the log file?

Regards

Robert

Robert, the code to change is shown the posts I told you, file bin/pandora_config.pm, comment line 76.

[code:1] die “[ERROR] This isn’t GNU/Linux. Pandora Server is only OFFICIALLY supported in GNU/Linux.nContact us if you require assistance running Pandora Server in other OS.nn” unless ($^O =~ m/linux/i);

When we said “other OS” we were refering to other UNIX OS 😀

Please, review the old posts, all is there.

Regards,

Raul

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Thanks raul

I must be blind as I didn’t see it :O)

I’m actually hoping to get it to work on ubuntu as well, but I work for a windows shop, so having some options is helpful.

Thanks for the good work.

Cheers

Robert