[pm-h] Perl Modules at HG

Mike Flannigan mikeflan at att.net
Sat Dec 1 10:25:44 PST 2018 

Here is an idea.

My old website is at:
http://www.mflan.com/index.htm

Then about 2-3 months ago I created a Wordpress version
of only my main page and put it here:
http://mflan.com/mf/

I created it from the Cpanel and was very surprised
when it worked the 2nd time around.

Then I decided I liked that, so I left my old
"index" page there, but then created a Redirect
from mflan.com
in directory /(.*)
to redirect URL:
http://www.mflan.com/

It says "Redirect with or without www."

There are no Aliases on this account.


Personally I don't even see how that redirect works.

Surely all this has nothing to do with the CGI problem
I was having until Mev421 fixed it.

I'm guessing that Mev421 is not interested in a
tech support job at HG, but I'm sure he would
do good there :-)



Mike


On 12/1/2018 12:11 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote:
>
> I think you may be on to something there, but it did not
> work when I changed my line:
>
> <FORM ACTION="http://mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi" METHOD="POST">
> to
> <FORM ACTION="http://www.mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi" METHOD="POST">
>
> I say it does not make send for the link
> http://mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi?name=muscle
> to work if File::Find was the problem.
>
>
> WOW, I just tried:
> <FORM ACTION="http://www.mflan.com/cgi-bin/qa.cgi" METHOD="POST">
> and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Now I need to figure out what is going on here.
> Why did it work before and then quit working.
> I am positive it worked before.
>
> If anybody can enlighten me, please call me at
> 281-286-6869.
>
>
>
> Mike
> 281-286-6869
>
>
>
> On 12/1/2018 11:44 AM, Mev412 wrote:
>> 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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