On Wed 22 Dec 2004, IvorW ivorw-openguides@xemaps.com wrote:

The HOWTO at http://openguides.org/dev/?node=OpenGuides%20HOWTO says Local installs If you're installing the OpenGuides modules into a local directory rather than system-wide, you're going to need to let the OpenGuides scripts (wiki.cgi, newpage.cgi, preferences.cgi and supersearch.cgi) know where to find them.

That's a documentation bug - this issue was fixed ages ago. I've replaced the paragraph on the wiki with a terse sentence that's at least not inaccurate. Someone else may have time to flesh it out a bit.

An alternative is to add the environment variable PERL5LIB in the .profile or .bashrc for the user account who will be running the script. Are there any issues with this?

Well: (a) some installs have all CGI running as the web user, and (b) it doesn't work in any case, so yes there are issues.

Kake