[pm-h] Perl Modules at HG

Sat Dec 1 09:44:41 PST 2018

Change

<form method="POST" action="http://mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi">

To

<form method="POST" action="http://www.mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi">

And this makes the form submission work the same as the Query String.

The form post was sending the data, but then receiving a 301 redirect
to prepend www. However it may have not been preserving the form data
on the redirect, so it did not return the proper response.
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:13 AM Julian Brown <jlbprof at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Without root access I do not believe you can install gcc, and since you cannot install File::Find without gcc you maybe SOL.
>
> Perhaps you should consider moving your site, Siteocity is a full cPanel server and is about $70/year.  It should allow you access to File::Find if you use the cPanel Perl #!/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/perl
>
>
> Julian
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:58 AM Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Let me be a little more verbose here.
>>
>> The program works fine if you click on one of those
>> words - so this link works:
>> http://mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi?name=muscle
>>
>> If you put a word (and word) in the box and hit
>> submit, it does not work.
>>
>> If you put muscle in that box and hit submit it
>> does not work.
>>
>> I need File::Find installed, that is for sure.
>> I may need more things after that.
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/1/2018 9:40 AM, Julian Brown wrote:
>>
>> So changing the shebang to #!/usr/bin/perl fixed your problem?
>>
>> Julian
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:56 AM Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Julian,
>>>
>>> Using that shebang produced a 500: Internal Error
>>>
>>>
>>> Before yesterday I was using
>>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>>> It worked long ago with that.
>>>
>>> Now I am using
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>> use cPanelUserConfig;
>>>
>>> just because they say to use that.
>>>
>>>
>>> The website is this:
>>> http://www.mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi
>>>
>>> Just put 'and' or 'doctor' in the search
>>> window and hit Submit.  It should produce
>>> a list of questions like when you click
>>> on any of the bold words on the right side
>>> of the page.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a cPanel server (in my opinion).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/1/2018 8:40 AM, Julian Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> If your "script" has a shebang at the top, make sure it says:
>>>
>>> #!/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/perl
>>>
>>> That will ensure you are using the cPanel Perl which has all those modules installed.
>>>
>>> Julian
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:39 AM Julian Brown <jlbprof at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does the HG server that is being used is it a cPanel server?   If so everything you need should already be there.
>>>>
>>>> Julian
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 6:29 AM Mike Flannigan <mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A sign of the times?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a CGI program on HostGator that worked fine
>>>>> for years.  Now it takes the form input, recreates
>>>>> the webpage, but does not produce any output.  I
>>>>> have this set:
>>>>> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
>>>>> but there are no errors given.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it broke when they moved me to a new
>>>>> server many months ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> I notice that File::Find, which the program uses, is
>>>>> not listed as an installed module.
>>>>>
>>>>> ExtUtils::MakeMaker     7.34
>>>>> File::Copy::Recursive     0.44
>>>>> File::HomeDir     1.004
>>>>> File::Path     2.16
>>>>>
>>>>> and 40+ others are installed, but not File::Find.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't that produce an error when it saw:
>>>>> use File::Find in the program?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I call up support.  1st tier couldn't handle it,
>>>>> so they bumped it up to tier 2 support.  Mine is
>>>>> the first call the tier 2 guy has ever had regarding
>>>>> Perl modules!
>>>>>
>>>>> When we try to install File::Find it gives error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ping:0.000100851058959961 (ticks) Testing connection speed to
>>>>> 208.43.108.66 using pureperl...(using cached speed)...Done
>>>>>
>>>>> Ping:0.000107288360595703 (ticks) Testing connection speed to
>>>>> 66.23.237.210 using pureperl...(using cached speed)...Done
>>>>>
>>>>> Ping:0.000108242034912109 (ticks) Testing connection speed to
>>>>> 216.14.113.158 using pureperl...(using cached speed)...Done
>>>>>
>>>>> Three usable fallback mirrors located
>>>>>
>>>>> Fetching http://www.namesdir.com/mirrors/cpan/index.html
>>>>> (connected:0).......(request attempt 1/12)...Resolving www.namesdir.com...
>>>>> (resolve attempt 1/65)... at 69.64.50.156......receiving......request
>>>>> success......Done
>>>>>
>>>>> Mirror Check passed for www.namesdir.com (/index.html)
>>>>>
>>>>> Checking C compiler....Could not locate an executable "gcc" binary....Done
>>>>> ** Unrecoverable Error **
>>>>>
>>>>> The C compiler is not functional and auto repair failed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perl module installs require a working C compiler.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please repair the C compiler and try again.
>>>>>
>>>>> **************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I wait for a C compiler expert to spring into action.
>>>>> It's been less than 24 hours so far and this is very
>>>>> low priority for me.  I will wait for incident number
>>>>> 09337722 to be resolved.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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