Fwd: Re: [rt-users] Has anyone figured out how to install Apache::Test?

[Ethan Kiczek]

Wow. This did it for me! Funny thing is, APXS ***still*** reported 
failure, but Apache::Test installed fine, and then Apache::Request did 
as well. Thanks Rich.

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Richard Gration wrote:

>Sorry, managed to reply to the OP instead of the list.
>
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>On Thursday 04 December 2003 04:30, Don Brett wrote:
>  
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>>I'm running into the same problem others have.  All Apache tests fail
>>while installing
>>Apache::Request, complaining about Apache::Test, which refuses to
>>install.  Any suggestions?  Thanks,
>>Don
>>    
>>
>
>I also had the same issues when installing Apache::Test. I eventually found
>out that the problem is permissions.
>
>Usually, perl mods have to be installed as root. My .cpan directory is in
>root's home directory. People familiar with apache might already have sniffed
>the problem from this. Apache runs as a particular user, usually httpd,
>sometimes apache (thanks RedHat). This user needs read access to any
>directory it serves content from. Permissions on root's home directory (like
>all other home directories) are usually 700. The test suite for Apache::Test
>fires up a test httpd on some port, and then tries to request a page from it.
>But this page is somewhere in the .cpan directory, which is very often in a
>directory which the httpd user does not have read access to. So the response
>code is 5xx (Forbidden or Access Denied, can't remember), which the test
>suite interprets as a failure to install the module or run the httpd server,
>therefore it bombs out. This is why a force install usually doesn't cause any
>problems, because most often the install goes OK, it's just the test that
>fails.
>
>Various solutions present themselves:
>
>1. Put .cpan in a world readable directory, maybe /tmp
>2. "chmod 755 /root" before installation and "chmod 700 /root" afterwards (or
>wherever your .cpan is)
>3. Cross your fingers and force the install
>
>HTH
>Rich
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