Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in Perl& C"

[Sisyphus <ka...@hdc.com.au>]

--- Original Message -----
From: Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
To: Garry Heaton <ga...@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: mod_Perl <mo...@apache.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in
Perl& C"



>
> http://perl.apache.org/distributions.html contains links to how to
> install mod_perl via ActivePerl's ppm (Perl Package Manager), as
> well as some other Apache::* modules. For starting out on Win32 this route
> is probably the easiest, as everything you need to get started
> comes with the ppm distribution. After that, the docs at
> http://perl.apache.org/, especially the guide, and http://take23.org/
> contain lots of resources to get you going.
>
> best regards,
> randy kobes
>

I recently sucessfully (and easily) installed mod_perl on Win 98 by  using
ppm.
Buoyed by my success I tried to do the same with Apache::ASP (from the same
location), but this failed. I've so far been unable to catch the full output
of this attempt as it takes up more than one DOS screen - '| more' doesn't
work for ppm and I can't find any option for having the output printed to a
file.
All I get to view is the end of a html page which, I suspect, emanates from
Microsoft.
Any words of enlightenment ?
How can I catch the full output of the ppm command ? ( This is a question I
am about to put to the Active State mailing list. I probably should wait for
a reply from that list before posting here - but  I decided to raise this
now while the topic is current.)

Cheers,
Rob

Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in Perl& C"

[Sisyphus <ka...@hdc.com.au>]

Hi Randy,
I had a few attempts again this morning to install it - one of which was
successful. I suspect that the problem was as simple as a misspelled url -
something I'm annoyed at not having picked up ( despite not being able to
view the entire error message ) - and for which I apologise. I don't know
for certain, but it's 'London to a brick' that I was continually misspelling
the location and then inadvertently got it right. An intentionally
misspelled location seems to give the same error message (from what I can
see of it). In amongst the html tags is "400 - HTTP Bad Request" - which is
a bit of a give-away.

Well - it *is* the first time I've seen that response - and I stopped
hunting through it when I realised it was just 'some html' page - and I
*am* stupidly impetuous.

I still can't send the output anywhere other than to screen. I've tried the
method you gave and it makes no difference. My shell is provided by
Command.com - and it has been suggested that I download cmd.exe and try
using that instead. I first created a file called ppm.txt in the current
working directory and tried to have the output sent there by the method you
suggest, but output still goes only to screen.

If indeed that method does work for you ( in a shell provided by
command.com ) could you let me know - and I will investigate further - and
perhaps eliminate one source of potential embarrassment ( though there are
still plenty left ). ( I realise that this is not a matter for discussion on
this group and will post no more about it here.)

Thanks for replying. Sorry to have caused you to spend time over such a
thing.
My commendations  on the job done of providing these packages for ppm
installation.
Perhaps you could move them to a more 'illiterate-friendly' location :)

Cheers,
Rob
Visit our website at http://www.kalinabears.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
To: Sisyphus <ka...@hdc.com.au>
Cc: mod_Perl <mo...@apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in
Perl& C"


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sisyphus" <ka...@hdc.com.au>
> To: "Randy Kobes" <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
> Cc: "mod_Perl" <mo...@apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:39 AM
> Subject: Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in
> Perl& C"
>
>
> > I recently sucessfully (and easily) installed mod_perl on Win 98 by
using
> > ppm.
> > Buoyed by my success I tried to do the same with Apache::ASP (from the
> same
> > location), but this failed. I've so far been unable to catch the full
> output
> > of this attempt as it takes up more than one DOS screen - '| more'
doesn't
> > work for ppm and I can't find any option for having the output printed
to
> a
> > file.
> > All I get to view is the end of a html page which, I suspect, emanates
> from
> > Microsoft.
> > Any words of enlightenment ?
> > How can I catch the full output of the ppm command ? ( This is a
question
> I
> > am about to put to the Active State mailing list. I probably should wait
> for
> > a reply from that list before posting here - but  I decided to raise
this
> > now while the topic is current.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob
>
> Hi,
>      I just tried installing Apache-ASP on a fresh installation, and it
> seemed to go OK .... Try installing it as (all on one line)
>
> ppm install
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/Apache-ASP.ppd > log.txt
>
> which should redirect the output to the file log.txt. Does this
> indicate why it failed?
>
> best regards,
> randy kobes
>
>

Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in Perl& C"

[Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sisyphus" <ka...@hdc.com.au>
To: "Randy Kobes" <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
Cc: "mod_Perl" <mo...@apache.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: (beginner) Win32 installation / "Writing Apache Modules in
Perl& C"


> I recently sucessfully (and easily) installed mod_perl on Win 98 by  using
> ppm.
> Buoyed by my success I tried to do the same with Apache::ASP (from the
same
> location), but this failed. I've so far been unable to catch the full
output
> of this attempt as it takes up more than one DOS screen - '| more' doesn't
> work for ppm and I can't find any option for having the output printed to
a
> file.
> All I get to view is the end of a html page which, I suspect, emanates
from
> Microsoft.
> Any words of enlightenment ?
> How can I catch the full output of the ppm command ? ( This is a question
I
> am about to put to the Active State mailing list. I probably should wait
for
> a reply from that list before posting here - but  I decided to raise this
> now while the topic is current.)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

Hi,
     I just tried installing Apache-ASP on a fresh installation, and it
seemed to go OK .... Try installing it as (all on one line)

ppm install
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/Apache-ASP.ppd > log.txt

which should redirect the output to the file log.txt. Does this
indicate why it failed?

best regards,
randy kobes