Re: P5EEx::Blue installed

At 06:06 PM 3/26/2002 -0500, Lihn, Steve wrote:
>Stephen,
>I installed the P5EE Blue and point my cgi-bin directory to
>/usr/local/cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue/ successfully.
>But I could not figure out how to run the demo report program as 
>you have on the internet. It would be nice at least  get
>something working.
>
>Please help.
>
>  Steve Lihn
>  FIS Database Support, Merck & Co., Inc.
>  Tel: (908) 423 - 4441

Hi,

I have been writing up the beginnings of an installation guide.


http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/software/htdocs/P5EEx/Blue/installguide
..html

So I appreciate you relating your experiences and working through
things to get it working.
(I spent some time over the last 4 days installing software on my
Windows XP laptop in order to get P5EE running there.)

I installed ActiveState's Perl 5.6.1 and Apache 1.3.24 (binary 
distribution for Win32).  The default cgi-bin directory ends up
being...

   C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin

For now, try copying your /usr/local/cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue directory to
/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue.
Also, copy your /usr/local/htdocs/P5EEx-Blue directory to
/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/P5EEx-Blue.
This will make the P5EE CGI programs and images visible to Apache.
(We need to figure out a more automated and standardized way
to do all of this.)

Then you need to edit the "demo_report.conf" file in this directory.
The default (from CVS) is


#############################################################################
  # $Id: demo_report.conf,v 1.3 2002/03/22 23:10:13 spadkins Exp $

#############################################################################

  perlinc       = /usr/ov/acoc/dev/src/P5EEx-Blue,
/usr/ov/acoc/dev/lib/perl5/5.6.0
  debugmode     = record
  showsession   = 1
  gzip          = 1
  configFile    = demo_report.pl
  #sessionClass  = P5EEx::Blue::Session::Cookie
  defaultWname  = app
  scriptUrlDir  = /cgi-bin/pub/p5ee
  scriptDir     = /usr/ov/acoc/dev/p5ee/P5EEx/Blue/cgi-bin
  htmlUrlDir    = /pub/p5ee/software/htdocs
  htmlDir       = /usr/ov/acoc/dev/p5ee/P5EEx/Blue/htdocs
  ttTemplateDir = /usr/ov/acoc/dev/p5ee/P5EEx/Blue/template/ttdemo

Since you used a $PREFIX of "/usr/local", you should modify this to something
like the following.


#############################################################################
  # $Id: demo_report.conf,v 1.3 2002/03/22 23:10:13 spadkins Exp $

#############################################################################

  perlinc       = /usr/local/lib/perl5, /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
  debugmode     = record
  showsession   = 1
  gzip          = 1
  configFile    = demo_report.pl
  #sessionClass  = P5EEx::Blue::Session::Cookie
  defaultWname  = app
  scriptUrlDir  = /cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue
  scriptDir     = /Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue
  htmlUrlDir    = /P5EEx-Blue
  htmlDir       = /Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/P5EEx-Blue
  ttTemplateDir = /Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache/htdocs/P5EEx-Blue/template/ttdemo

The important points are to set 
  * "perlinc" to point to any non-default places where Perl modules are stored
  * scriptDir to be the directory where the P5EE CGI scripts are
  * scriptUrlDir to be the URL path to those scripts
  * htmlDir to be the directory where the P5EE images/style-sheets/docs are
  * htmlUrlDir to be the URL path to those images/style-sheets/docs

You should then be able to get the demo to run with the following URL.

  http://localhost/cgi-bin/P5EEx-Blue/p5x/demo/report

Let me know how this goes.
If it fails, let me know what error you are seeing in the Apache error log.
i.e.

  /Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/logs/error.log

Stephen