Is There Something Weird about....

Is there some weird quirk about configuring your scripts when a host has a Plesk control panel and has a directory structure like?:

1) anon_ftp
2) bin
3) cert
4) cgi-bin
5) conf
6) error_docs
7) httpdocs
8) httpsdocs
9) logs
10) pd
11) web_users

My autoresponder script which installed easily on the previous host doesn't want to install on the new host.

The script requires:

A web server running UNIX, Linux or Windows NT/2000
MySQL (at least 3.23)
Perl 5.005 or greater with your own CGI-BIN


The new host has:
UNIX
MySQL 4.0.13
Perl 5.05
CGI-Bin

But it does not want to install on this hosting!!!! Grrrrr.

If I move to a different host, how do I know if the scripts will install on the next host?

"it does not want to install" does not explain your problem clearly. Can you not upload the files/script at all? Can you upload them, but they don't do what they are suppose to? Can you upload them, but then can't access them. What exactly is the problem?

Hi jharnois

Uploading is fine, otherwise that would be a FTP problem.
It runs perfectly once installed, but I can't get that far. It is running on the previous hosting.

It has a mysql backend, which the "install.cgi" creates.

However the install can't find DBI.pm, which is not one of the files in the script. I assume it is a part of the Perl installed on the host.

The error says:
Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at func.cgi line 31.

That is as far as I can take it. If there are other error messages to come, I can't get far enough in the install to see them.

The difference is between one host to another so it leads me back to the original question: Is there something weird in the configuring of hosting with a Plesk control panel that has a directory structure like?: ..............

Thank you for your insight.

DBI is a very popular Perl module for database interaction. Most hosts have this installed, but apparently yours does not. It doesn't have anything to do with the directory setup by Plesk b/c @INC uses absolute paths. The problem is the module is not installed in one of the directories in @INC. You need to contact your host and ask if the DBI module is installed. If so, find out where. If not, ask for it to be installed.

Thank You jharnois !!