[pm-h] mod perl and calendar.cgi

Mon May 5 09:40:15 PDT 2014

On Mon, 5 May 2014 09:09:11 -0500
"Fraser Baker" <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> OK, I had two copies of HTML::Template, one in Site and the other
> came with PERL. I removed the one in Site and this made no difference.
> 
> Reading a bit, always dangerous, I find that find that the page 
> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/perl/getting-started-with-the-perl-template-toolkit/ 
> talks about installing Apache::Template.
> 
> Is this what I need to do? I really need to resolve this issue. There
> must be someone out there that can help me resolve this.

Hi Fraser,

Template Toolkit is completely different from HTML::Template.
Apache::Template works with Template Toolkit, so installing it would
not help your issue. (Unless you wanted to rewrite everything you are
doing in Template instead of HTML::Template. <jk/>)

G. Wade

> Fraser
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "B. Estrade" <estrabd at gmail.com>
> To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 7:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [pm-h] mod perl and calendar.cgi
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:44 PM, G. Wade Johnson
> > <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:09:59 -0500
> >> "Fraser Baker" <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> OK:
> >>>
> >>> For the server that is NOT running mod_perl
> >>> INCLUDED DATA ARRAY is
> >>> Term is C:/Perl/site/lib
> >>> Term is C:/Perl/lib
> >>> Term is .
> >>>
> >>> For the server that IS running mod_perl
> >>>
> >>> INCLUDED DATA ARRAY is
> >>> Term is D:/www/wc-admin.com/cgi-bin
> >>> Term is C:/Perl/site/lib
> >>> Term is C:/Perl/lib
> >>> Term is .
> >>> Term is C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2
> >>
> >> Okay. This gives us some stuff to work with.
> >>
> >> Check each of the directories in the two sets of paths for
> >> HTML/Template.pm. This might show more than one HTML::Template
> >> module installed.
> >
> > Or none at all. Make sure HTML::Template is installed.
> >
> >>
> >> Next, check to see if you have the same version of HTML::Template
> >> on both machines. I had somehow missed earlier that these were two
> >> separate machines. (Brain fail)
> >>
> >
> > /me too... oopsie
> >
> >> You'll want to verify that there is only one version of
> >> HTML::Template on each server and that the versions on the two
> >> servers match.
> >>
> >> If the one that works is older than the one that doesn't,
> >> upgrading will require code changes to match the newer module. If
> >> the one that works is the newer version, you can upgrade the
> >> version and the problem should be solved.
> >>
> >> G. Wade
> >>
> >>
> >>> I don't see anything here. Where to go from here?
> >
> > Is this mod_perl or mod_perl2? I am not familiar with any of this on
> > Windows unfortunately.  You could create a barebones script that
> > just tries to include HTML::Template using one directory in @INC at
> > a time. mod_perl also does funky things with applications that are
> > not meant to be run persistently - so if this is the case there are
> > request "handlers" that are meant to restart or recompile/restart
> > for each request.
> >
> > Unfortunately it could be a tedious process to track it down, but I
> > think wade's put you on the right track.
> >
> > Brett
> >
> >>>
> >>> Fraser
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej at anomaly.org>
> >>> To: <houston at pm.org>
> >>> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:25 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [pm-h] mod perl and calendar.cgi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:23:59 -0500
> >>> > "Fraser Baker" <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Hi Brett:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Turns out that for the mod_perl server, there are some 165
> >>> >> entries in %INC whereas for the not mod-perl server there is
> >>> >> only one.
> >>> >
> >>> > Hi Fraser,
> >>> >
> >>> > There are 2 different things here.
> >>> >
> >>> > @INC contains a list of directories that perl searches for
> >>> > modules. %INC contains entries for each module that is loaded.
> >>> >
> >>> > I believe the suggestion was to check @INC to see if a module is
> >>> > loaded from a location you are not expecting.
> >>> >
> >>> > G. Wade
> >>> >
> >>> >> The %ENV is larger by about 5 entries on the mod_perl machine.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> OK, where do I go from here.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Fraser
> >>> >>
> >>> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> >> From: "B. Estrade" <estrabd at gmail.com>
> >>> >> To: "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <houston at pm.org>
> >>> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:15 AM
> >>> >> Subject: Re: [pm-h] mod perl and calendar.cgi
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> > Just a hunch, but I'd look to see how mod_perl affected your
> >>> >> > environment. namely @INC.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Brett
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Fraser Baker
> >>> >> > <flbaker at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> >> >> Hi y'all:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> Before I added mod-perl, calendar.cgi worked.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> After mod perl I get this error:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> [Tue Apr 22 09:28:35 2014] [error] Can't locate object
> >>> >> >> method "initialize"
> >>> >> >> via package "HTML::Template" at
> >>> >> >> D:/www/wc-admin.com/cgi-bin/event_calendar/calendar.cgi line
> >>> >> >> 131.\n
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> The offending line in calendar.cgi is:
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> my
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> $tmpl =
> >>> >> >> HTML::Template->initialize( $directives->{'template'} ||
> >>> >> >> 'template.html' );
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> I searched template.pm and don't find a function named
> >>> >> >> initialize. I do find
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> # initialize the template buffer
> >>> >> >> sub _init_template {
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> How do I fix this?
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> Fraser
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, the
> >> programming must be the process of putting them in.
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