I cannot see anything wrong with what you did. The abyss runs fine on my Xubuntu systems. You mention that the config flie is generated. If you open that file (back it up first), and look under
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I used to use KeyFocus Web Server on MS Windows machines, but when I started to use Linux distributions I realized they don't have a Linux version (at least a free version to my knowledge) ... that's ...