Hi

I'm installing on a Ubuntu 6 test system and I don't understand what I'm doing!

After much installing of perl modules to satisfy many 'Can't locate' compile errors in my Apatche2/log/error.log I have arrived at an error I can't solve.

Here is my configuration: (I'll try to be breif:)

My virtual host config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.test.com
        ServerAlias test.com
        DocumentRoot /data/domains/test/public
        Alias /extras /data/WebGUI/www/extras
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlRequire /data/WebGUI/lib/WebGUI.pm
        PerlInitHandler WebGUI
        PerlSetVar WebguiRoot /data/WebGUI
        PerlSetVar WebguiConfig /etc/test.conf
#        PerlCleanupHandler Apache2::SizeLimit  #this only works fo a non thread apache
        PerlRequire /data/WebGUI/sbin/preload.perl
</VirtualHost>

and I have /data/WebGUI/etc/test.conf

I start spectre and do an apache2ctl start and see:

Starting WebGUI 7.7.28
    Loading test.conf

So far so good. However when I point my browser (Firefox) at http://test.com (which I have in /etc/hosts) I get an Internal Server error 500. My /var/log/apache2/error.log now has:

Use of uninitialized value $pathToFile in open at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Config/JSON.pm line 170.
Use of uninitialized value $pathToFile in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Config/JSON.pm line 195.
[Thu Dec 10 13:53:40 2009] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] Cannot read config file:  at /data/WebGUI/lib/WebGUI.pm line 169\n

A quick poke at WebGUI.pm, WebGUI/Config.pm and JSON.pm tells me I completely insane!!

I think this is because I have done my perl installs from CPAN and NOT used /data/wre/prereqs/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 from the install! I tried inserting a use lib in WebGUI.pm but that gave me Dynaload conflicts!

Obviously theCPAN version of JSON.pm is completely incompatible (it is totally different in respect of coding around $pathToFile) with WebGUI. Why?

I seem to be in a total gotcha here. Do I assume that the only to way do a clean install is to start from scratch and do a source install?

I really don't want to do that because ultimately I need to install WebGUI on a production Fedora server. Given that the source build recompiles every dependency including Apache and ssl, I certainly can't entertain the prospect on a perfectly stable production machine.

Do I need a separate server? Given the slow down as my test install got nearer to success I presume a mere 1GHz and a GB of memory is not enough in any case?

Disappointed

--- (Edited on 12/10/2009 8:41 am [GMT-0600] by bradcan) ---

Hi

Thanks for the tip.

I have finaly got my test site up. Oh yes!

As I observed some of the CPAN modules don't seem to be compatible so I found the right way to make my apache2 use the the wre-9.0.3-debian5 install. Like so:

I place:

use lib '/data/wre/prereqs/lib/perl5/5.10.0';
use lib '/data/wre/prereqs/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0';
use lib '/data/WebGUI/lib';

in WebGUI.pm and

use lib '/data/wre/prereqs/lib/perl5/5.10.0';
use lib '/data/wre/prereqs/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0';

in /data/WebGUI/sbin/preload.perl That fixes the perl installation problems.

I still get some complaints in my error.log that /etc/test.conf can't be loaded by JSON. This is because there are verious places where dir_config is called somethin like this:

    my $session = WebGUI::Session->open($server->dir_config('WebguiRoot'),$config->getFilename, $request, $server, $sessionId);

Well for some reasion $server->dir_config returns nothing on my install, but hapily  $request->dir_config('WebguiRoot') does. I can't spot any clues anywhere but perhaps some mod_perl guru does?

Any how I just hacked a couple of places and hay presto I'm up and working.

Hope this helps somebody.

--- (Edited on 12/10/2009 4:55 pm [GMT-0600] by bradcan) ---