Re: Can't connect to ppm-ia.ActiveState.com:80

[Richard Heintze <si...@yahoo.com>]

The mod_perl installation works fine on my home
machine. (I' have not actually tried it yet, but I
don't get errors about contacting
http://theoryx5.uwinopeg....

The office machine can browse the internet but still
gives me errors when running "perl mpinstall". 

The office machine connects to the internet via a
proxy server -- perhaps that is the problem. Is there
a way for mpinstall to accommodate a proxy server?

How can I manually fetch the files that mpinstall is
trying to get and install locally?
   Thanks,
         Siegfried



--- Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Richard Heintze wrote:
> 
> > I've searched the archives for "connect" and could
> > find no hints.
> > 
> > As per the mod_perl installation instructions, I
> type
> > the following command:
> > C:\Program Files\Apache
> > Group\APACHE2\mod_perl-1.99_08>ppm install
> >
>
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58
> 
> You don't want to do that - rather, try
>  C:\> ppm install
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/mod_perl.ppd
> The address
> 
>
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58
> is what you can set the repository to within the ppm
> shell.
>  
> > And I get these errors (see below). I have
> installed
> > Apache 2 and perl 5.8 and I'm trying to install
> > mod_perl2.
> > 
> > Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't
> connect to
> > ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname
> > 'ppm.ActiveState.com') at
> > D:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84 Error:
> 500
> > Can't connect to
> > ppm-ia.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad hostname
> > 'ppm-ia.ActiveState.com') at
> > D:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/Repository.pm line 84
> 
> There was recent discussion on the perl-win32-users
> mailing list
> (archives at http://www.activestate.com/) about
> this. Part of the
> problem I think is that ppm-ia.ActiveState.com isn't
> running yet.
> One recommendation was to use ppm2 for now.
> 
> -- 
> best regards,
> randy kobes
> 


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Re: Can't connect to ppm-ia.ActiveState.com:80

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

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Richard Heintze wrote:

> The mod_perl installation works fine on my home
> machine. (I' have not actually tried it yet, but I
> don't get errors about contacting
> http://theoryx5.uwinopeg....
> 
> The office machine can browse the internet but still
> gives me errors when running "perl mpinstall". 
> 
> The office machine connects to the internet via a
> proxy server -- perhaps that is the problem. Is there
> a way for mpinstall to accommodate a proxy server?
> 
> How can I manually fetch the files that mpinstall is
> trying to get and install locally?
>    Thanks,
>          Siegfried

The mpinstall script uses the getstore() routine of LWP::Simple,
so if you have to do something special to get getstore() to
work with your settings, you'd have to do the same thing for
the mpinstall script.

To install things manually,
- get mod_perl.ppd from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/
- get mod_perl.tar.gz from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/
  and place it in the same directory as mod_perl.ppd
- get mod_perl.so from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/scripts/
  and copy it to your Apache2 modules directory (eg, C:\Apache2\modules)
- edit the HREF attribute of the CODEBASE tag in mod_perl.ppd
  to just read HREF="mod_perl.tar.gz"
- run, from the directory where you saved mod_perl.ppd,
    C:\> ppm install mod_perl.ppd

This is all for ActivePerl build 8xx and Apache 2 / mod_perl 2.

-- 
best regards,
randy