Phoenix.pm: Installing Perl

[Pablo Velasquez]

Hi,
I'll volunteer some information and welcome corrections or extensions from
all.

Is your goal to use the MySQL db at highway? Do you have a UNIX or NT
account with hiway?

However, you want to "develop" on windows first?

Not sure about your goals...

Also, I went to hiway.com and read their "connection" policies. They do not
offer telnet. They seem to have the same system as ValueWeb, NO telnet,
simply modification of files with "WS_FTP"... This is like telling you to
do a line sketch with a brick instead of a pencil.

This is completely unacceptable to me :) You should switch to a UNIX
NetNation web hosting plan...

That's my advice.

-Pablo

p.s.

I'm not sure I'd recommend going through the whole deal of developing
(including installing MySQL, etc) on your Windows machine. It's up to you.
I was able to install IIS, MySQL, the DBI drivers, the whole bit, on my
windows NT machine but it didn't really provide any help for development
since it requires you to duplicate your work too often (also things don't
always work the same way). It was easier to just create a test site on the
Linux box, upload my scripts and test them, then move them to the
production part of the site when I was done. I've been doing this for about
6 months now without a single problem. (as opposed to my earlier trial with
Windows which didn't go well at all) But that is my own experience others
may find the opposite to be true.

At 08:04 PM 10/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
>OK.  Those of you who have met me in person can probably attest to me being 
>just plain dangerous when it comes to some things about computer literacy.  
>(Telnet being just one of them, with or without peanut brittle crunching 
>inside my head.)
>
>In attempting to load a module, I got a message saying that I needed Perl 
>5.004 for the latest DBI.pm version to work.  OK, no problem, I say.  I'll 
>just load up Perl 5.004 on my machine and we'll be on our way.  Except
that I 
>can't figure out for the life of me what I need to do.   This is after 
>reading as many readme files as there are hairs on my ass... OK that's a bad 
>analogy...
>
>I'm running Windows 95.
>
>Refering to the CPAN page:
>http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/Porting/README.dos.html
>
>It tells me to set:
>    LFN=y
>before un-zipping.   WHUHH?! 
>
>Also, it says next
><<Create a ``symlink'' or copy your bash.exe to sh.exe in your ($DJDIR)/bin 
><<directory: 
><<    ln -s bash.exe sh.exe
>
>But those look like UNIX commands to me.
>
>Just about the entire "Building" section of this page does not make any
sense 
>to me.
>
>All in all, this has not been the most productive of days.
>
>It can't be that hard to do, but I'm apparently lacking in the assumed 
>knowledge and skill.
>
>Any help would be appreciated..
>
>Tim
>        
>