On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Michael Peters <mpet...@plusthree.com> wrote: > On 07/07/2010 05:16 AM, Mike Tonks wrote: > >> 1) So and so CPAN module is not found >> >> 2) Config file not found (ConfigAuto - in cgiapp_init) >> >> currently these produce an ugly 500 Server Error and loeave you >> searching in the apache log for the problem. >> >> For 1) is there a better way than: >> >> use Data::Dumper; >> use XML::Simple; >> use Date::Manip; >> use HTML::FromText; > > It's verbose, but the only thing I know of is: > > BEGIN { > eval { require Data::Dumper; Data::Dumper::import() }; > die "Can't find Data::Dumper module: $@" if $@; > } > > repeated for each one.
>From what I remember, the installation process for MovableType 4 (the free, community version a couple of versions earlier, when SQLite was still supported) was really fantastic. The install script ran a check and figured out the missing modules, printed out a nice list, and, I think, even offered to install them. I would love to learn how to do that. I guess I could open the tin and peek inside... > >> that will safely try to load the modules needed and allow me to report >> via a nice formatted error page what's wrong? > > Btw, it's not a good idea to show detailed error messages on your > website. It's a security concern as it gives out more information to > attackers than necessary. So it's not a good idea to start. > > Error logs are your friend. Learn them and learn to love them. > >> 2) If I hit an error in cgiapp_init, is there a way to redirect to an >> error page, as per prerun_mode() ? > > There doesn't appear to be. There's the error_mode() but that only seems > to work for run modes, not other stages. > > -- > Michael Peters > Plus Three, LP > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ > ## ## > ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## > ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## > ## ## > ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## > ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## > ## ## > ################################################################ > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################