[cgiapp] Re: Installing CGI::Application::Dispatch

[Mark Stosberg]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:07:26 -0300
Paulo_odos <pcortizo at odos.com.br> wrote:

> Dears, even at risk of proposing an off-topic, I'd like to know your 
> opinion about this question. I consider the CGI::Application a gorgeous 
> framework. It creates the "Best of the Worlds" connecting the MVC model 
> with the CGI simplicity. In my opinion this is particularly valuable 
> when you wish to use it in hosts with shared servers. This possibility 
> extends considerably its use at the Internet because perl has a 
> perl-efficient platform for internet begginers.
> Congratulations to all involved.
> 
> The only thing we need is to install the modules required in the host. 
> The biggers hosts, those which provide Linux with shell access and perl, 
> allow some kind of automated installation. In my case, through CPanel 
> BlueHost remains the options of:
> 
> i) install a module
> ii) remove a module
> iii) update a module to the last version
> 
> I Installed the CGI::Application (4.21) and lots of plugins without 
> problems.
> 
> The CGI::Application::Dispatch installed was requesting the module 
> correctly but wasn't sendind the right parameters, so I decided to 
> update it. Unfortunnately it cannot install the version 2.16 or 
> reinstall the old version.
> 
> The BlueHost support doesn't help enough, they said that what I can't 
> install through CPanel just cannot be used.
> 
> I wonder if anyone has any tips to help, other than change the host.
> 
> Below is the report of the attempt to install. Despite they said that 
> the modules below are pre-requisites not installed they are installed.
> 
> Test::LongString
> CGI::Application
> Exception::Class
> Exception::Class::TryCatch

Besides being a CGI::Application contributor, I also provide cPanel hosting.
That means I'm interested for a solution, it unfortunately doesn't mean I know
exactly why this is failing. You should FTP access to where the Perl modules are installed.

Manually placing CGI/Application/Dispatch.pm in the right directory via FTP
should fix the issue.

    Mark