[Catalyst-dev] Tutorial Fails under Apache Mod_Perl

[Kieren Diment]

mod_perl is not a great deployment target.  You'd need a good reason to want to use it.

On 06/12/2013, at 9:51 AM, William Anderson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Application is not running in a distribution directory. Well, yes the base directory that the application was running in moved when I moved it to the actual web server, i.e, moved from /home/catalyst on the tutorial virtual machine to /home/testsite on the test web server virtual machine. 
> 
> However, the whole contents of the Catalyst project was moved, including the Makefile.pl and the generated Makefile. Also, I ran perl Makefile.pl and make several times while i found and installed the perl modules that were not included in any Ubuntu packages. Should this not have updated the paths?
> 
> Anyway, there must be a method where you can take a Catalyst application, developed using the development server script, and deploy it onto an actual web server that does not cause such problems. I will continue reading, experimenting, and learning about Catalyst. 
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Carl Franks <carl at fireartist.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst-dev] Tutorial Fails under Apache Mod_Perl
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> 
> It sounds like the app's no longer running in a distribution directory
> (containing a Makefile.PL)
> see the docs for the "-HOME" switch for how to handle this:
> http://search.cpan.org/~jjnapiork/Catalyst-Runtime-5.90051/lib/Catalyst.pm#-Home
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