On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Innerlab wrote: > Hello: > > I am not an expert either with Apache or Perl, so I am probably > having some basic problem here. > I was forced to intall mod_perl just because of one script that I use > for querying Amazon.com and parsing the XML they return. > My site was until yesterday hosted by some company, but now I have to > use my own web server and trying to make perl work. > > I had apache installed on w2000, and replaced that instalation with > the one provided in the file "perl-win32-bin-0.9.exe". I copied > everything on top of the other one, including the configuration. > > Browsing of "localhost" is fine, and simple Perl tests like > "hello.pl" work, but I have problems with that script. > > I don't really know what the following means, but it seems the script > uses Perl module LWP. The author of the script recommended installing > this module like this: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::LWP'
The Perl/Apache distribution of perl-win32-bin.exe comes with the LWP suite of modules, so you shouldn't have to install this. > Also, the script uses a package called "WSParser.pm", which I have in > my cgi-bin folder. Maybe someone in this list is an Amazon.com > associate and has dealt with these scripts. I'm not familiar with this module, but if it's a problem with finding it, take a look at the entry on keeping and using your own module library under C:\> perldoc perlfaq8 > Anyway, I don't even know how to chmod a file, so maybe this is the > first thing I should do. How do I do that? This is probably a Unix-specific thing in setting the permissions properly; you most likely don't need this on Win32. -- best regards, randy kobes