Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Local installs: where you don't have root - OpenGuides-Dev

23 Dec 2004

On Wed 22 Dec 2004, IvorW &lt;ivorw-openguides(a)xemaps.com&gt; 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