testing plate solve - by: CapnRon

I am just trying to test the local plate-solver and I need a little hand-holding. I have downloaded the ansvr local server and the appropriate files for my FOV. Everything seemed to load into these directories:
C:\users\Ron\AppData\Local\cygwin_ansvr (bin, dev, etc, home, lib, opt, sbin, tmp, usr, var)
what should my settings be for : solver, wcsinfo, config (for offline use in Ekos)
and for online use in Ekox
what is API key (I probably missed this somewhere in setup); I assume API url is nova.astrometry.net

I tried setting these to the actual directories on my machine (they had initially been set to a directory starting at Cygwin_ansvr) which is correc?

I am in the solver control window, I have solver action as nothing. I hit load and slew and upload a previous fits image, which does not have metadata (although there is plenty of header data) and check blind solve.

the solver starts but then times out. at 180 seconds.

I realize there could be a lot of things wrong (although the image I am using was take with a wide field telescope and an Sbig mono camera, and has plenty of stars.

Any help pointing me in the right direction (no pun intended) is appreciated.

thanks,
Ron