Re: Question re Manual Install

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <mailbox@gunnar.cc>]

Thanks for your comments, Earl.

Earl Hood wrote:
> On September 4, 2002 at 17:52, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>I have to say that I think Earl is kind of exaggerating the 
>>difficulties.
> 
> I do not think I was "exaggerating" the difficulties.

Well, that was the impression I had, but don't let us argue about it. ;-)

> A potential snag is if the hosting service uses a chrooted environment
> for the web server that differs from ftp access (i.e. the directory
> paths were different between the web server and the ftp server).
> I've have correspondance with one user in the past where this was
> the case.

Hmm.. Some hosting services seem to do anything to make things more 
difficult for their customers. :(

> You may want to have a test operation for you CGI program that checks
> that things will work properly.  For example, the program blindly does:
> 
>   require 'mhamain.pl';
> ...
> In general, I
> would wrap the main block for the CGI program in an eval block so
> any die()'s are caught.

Principally I agree, but an easier way to achieve the same thing is to 
explicitly add a few die statements and:

    use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

I wrote the script for my own use, but since I mention it on this list 
from time to time, I guess I should clean up the code, including 
preventing "Internal Server Error" messages on the screen...

/ Gunnar


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