basic Perl help please ?

[rh71]

Error

I'm trying to setup the perl-based IDS which is similar to the PHP-based GALLERY for photo-viewing. My question is... is this error because of a setup problem on my webhost's server? Do I have to place the IDS files within CGI-BIN directory for PERL to run properly ? Or will it know how to interpret index.cgi no matter where in I place the files in my user directory ?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

It means you don't have the image magick perl module installed.

 

[rh71]

I'm wondering if that's because I didn't place these files sub to the cgi-bin directory (I deleted that dir a while ago)... would that be the case ?

My host indicates:
CGI/Perl

We support Perl 5.0 by Activestate. Make sure your scripts are compatible with Windows NT versions of Perl. Each account comes with it's own pre-configured /cgi-bin directory.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: rh71
I'm wondering if that's because I didn't place these files sub to the cgi-bin directory (I deleted that dir a while ago)... would that be the case ?

My host indicates:
CGI/Perl

We support Perl 5.0 by Activestate. Make sure your scripts are compatible with Windows NT versions of Perl. Each account comes with it's own pre-configured /cgi-bin directory.

no, it means that Image::Magick is not installed.

Analogy: You install CrazyBrowser without having Internet Explorer, you run crazy browser, it complains "Can't locate internet explorer" and fails to run. It's not because you installed it in the wrong directory, it's because you installed it on a machine without IE.

Install Image::Magick on the server and it will stop giving you that error. YOu will probably have to ask your webmaster to do this for you.

 

[rh71]

Thx for the responses. I was afraid of that because apparently Readyhosting won't install anything like that just to satisfy a user. This begs the question... how do so many people run Gallery or IDS on their websites? They can't possibly all have their own servers running them... can they ?