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

[<kr...@po...>]

Joyce Park wrote:
> [quoting Kragen]
> > 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?

No, but Microsoft Windows users can more easily install Python than
Perl, URI, Digest::MD5, MIME::Base64, LWP, Apache, mod_perl, and
probably some other Perl module I forgot.  I never did care enough to
package up pubsub.py with the McMillan Installer so you didn't even
have to have Python installed, but if that matters a lot to someone,
it should only take an hour or two.

> 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.

Let's we just rip out the .htaccess bit; the justifications that were
dubious in 2000 don't apply at all now.  A savvy user can always put
the httpd.conf text into .htaccess and have it work fine, anyway, in
the unlikely case that they want to go with .htaccess.

Maybe you already did this; I haven't updated from CVS in a while, and
as I write this, I have no Internet access.

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