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HELP - not working w/ new perl version?
Arrgggh. My host "We are needing to upgrade the server to the latest version of PERL. It seems that your application is not compatible."

I speak no PERL mumbo-jumbo.

What gives?
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Re: [ArmyAirForces] HELP - not working w/ new perl version? In reply to
My host reports the following:

We are going to update to versions 5.8.0 build 806 currently 5.6.1 build 635.

It's greek to me.

The error I got when they upgraded (without my knowledge) was as follows:

Code:
CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:



Any help appreciated.

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ArmyAirForces: Aug 29, 2003, 1:40 PM
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Re: [ArmyAirForces] HELP - not working w/ new perl version? In reply to
Ugh, any reason for the upgrade? My experience has been Activestate's 5.8.0 is not very good, a lot of modules have problems with (DBI/DBD::ODBC especially). I always recommend 5.6.1 on Windows, works great.

As a short term fix, ask them to map .cgi to a perl 5.6.1 binary for just your installation (Goto internet services manager, right click on the directory where gforum is, then setup the application mapping for .cgi to goto perl 5.6.1).

If that's not possible, I'd guess they didn't install extra perl modules like DBI or DBD::mysql with the new version.

Cheers,

Alex
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Re: [Alex] HELP - not working w/ new perl version? In reply to
I have no idea why Pirate

I'll pass along your note and hope for the best. Thanks for the quick reply.
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I'm running MSSQL installation, is the DBI module the one required?
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If you are using MSSQL, you need to get them to install

DBI
DBD::ODBC

for Gossamer Forum to work. Also, Digest::MD5 and MIME::Base64 are optional, but good to have as well.

Cheers,

Alex
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My luck they try to help out by upgrading on the Friday before a holiday weekend!

I guess there's no way in heck you'll ever write a .NET version eh? Cool