Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] New installation instructions

[Joyce P. <tru...@ya...>]

> > I wrote an install.doc explaining how to get this working with
> > IIS and the ActiveState Perl.  It had pictures and everything.  
Oooh, that sounds like just the thing.  I suppose we could kind of
agree that Windows users are unlikely to do much with Perl in
general, and that we won't try to address that part of the community
until we get a C version... but it's nice to have a stopgap.  I know
from experience with PHP that there are a lot of Windows people we'll
eventually need to address if we want to have a big userbase, and you
can't make them compile much.

> I wrote clENS (now pubsub.py) to make it easier --- if
> you have Python installed, you just run the script, and it works.
Are Windows users any more likely to have Python than Perl?

> > > 2)  I hate the whole .htaccess thing
> > Totally agree with you.
> Now, I think, most people have their own servers.
How about if I rewrite the installation doc to have httpd.conf as the
default, but also give directions for the .htaccess thing?  One of my
issues is that I found I had to set AllowOverride to All for the
default, docroot, AND mod_pubsub/cgi-bin directories to get this to
work.  Very annoying, not the way it was documented, insecure, and
you wouldn't be able to do that on most shared servers anyway.

> > > kn_events
> It would surprise me if it created subdirectories it couldn't
> write to.
Hmmm, maybe I was tripping.

> It's mod_perl clean; you can run it in
> Apache::Registry.  I'll see if I can post notes on how to do this
> soon.
> I'll report on my progress on the main mailing list
Great!  JP


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