hi all, I'm trying to setup Apache::Test with our apaches and have run into major troubles.
CPAN refuses to install the mod without force, because all tests completely fail. t/logs/error_log then contained error messages like these: -----error_log------ [...] [Tue Aug 26 14:23:47 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path [...] -----error_log------ never saw such an apache error message ... ? search permissions are missing ? what kind of stuff is that? But a google search quickly pointed me to the source of the problem: In a default linux & perl installation Apache::Test is very unlikely to be installable by root (http://dbforums.com/t859484.html). I tried to make && make test the package as a "normal" user and I succeded. Depending on my security settings this is however just luck: If the above posting on dbforums is correct, then the problem is because the unpacking and building is done by user root whereas all files below t/ are chowned to the actual apache test user. Now this works fine as long as the _apache test user_ is allowed to access root's .cpan build area at all, and I doubt that on most systems a normal user (such as the apache test user) will be allowed to access anything within ~root and thus "make test" will fail. Are there arguments against running those tests as root? for the record: get this for apache 1.3.28 and mp1.28 as well as with apache 2.0.47 and mp1.99_09. udo -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
