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Perl Version Workaround?
Uh oh!

I am off on my perl version by some very small numbers...Perl 5.00404 required--ours is only version 5.00401

Unfortunately on our managed server, we don't have root, and they appear to always stay a bit behind on upgrades... and do 800 servers at once.

Install went smoothly regardless. Very nice....

Then upon start it died. Because of a customized 500 page in my .htaccess, even in dbug mode I don't get the error to paste. (How can I fix this?)

Anyway, it seems to work on the setup, but I can't finish the login to go to the main forum. I receive this error in my Apache Error Log:

GT::SQL::Driver::MYSQL (30250): Preparing query: SELECT forum_id_fk,usernew_last FROM gforum_UserNew WHERE user_id_fk = '1' at /home/enigma/public_html/juice/forum/admin/GT/SQL/Driver/MYSQL.pm line 35.
[Sun Dec 2 21:20:54 2001] [error] [client 204.119.58.61] Premature end of script headers: /home/enigma/public_html/juice/forum/gforum.cgi

Is there a work around for this? Hurricane Electric is reluctant to change perl versions when I ask.Wink


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diversity: Dec 2, 2001, 9:49 PM
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Re: [diversity] Perl Version Workaround? In reply to
What version of MySQL and/or DBI are you using?

The script usually requires that version of perl because it does actually require it. It's no joke ;-)

Tell your web host to get a move on. The version you're running was released last century. Literally.

Cheers

- wil

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Wil: Dec 3, 2001, 1:28 AM
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Re: [Wil] Perl Version Workaround? In reply to
See my point about hosts using old versions Tongue
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Yes, but would you really want to host your website with such a hosting provider?!

- wil
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I'm sure it doesn't bother most. Those who require more features or customization should probably go with a dedicated server.
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????!

- wil
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Re: [diversity] Perl Version Workaround? In reply to
Hi,

No, we'll update the installer to detect this, but the program does require 5.004_04. A lot of the object oriented support does not work on older versions, and you would get a lot of strange errors.

5.004_04 came out in 98 I think, so it's pretty old.

Cheers,

Alex
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I have a dedicated server. Just not root access to upgrade as I please.

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Re: [diversity] Perl Version Workaround? In reply to
Great News!


We can install a localized version of perl in our account I guess... so we are trying that now. I'll let you know how it works!



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Re: [diversity] Perl Version Workaround? In reply to
The localized version was a success.... so all you fully managed server people, you can change things around a bit more than we thought!

Blush

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