Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Vic
> So I can assume from that then that I don't need to symlink anything to > anywhere?? Yes. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 16:02:05 Simon Reap wrote: > Jacqui Caren wrote: > >> I would advise against making a symbolic link for perl - I have done > >> that, and perl couldn't find its modules. The symlink was from > >> /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl, so perl looked in /usr/local/lib >

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Simon Reap
Jacqui Caren wrote: >> I would advise against making a symbolic link for perl - I have done >> that, and perl couldn't find its modules. The symlink was from >> /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/bin/perl, so perl looked in /usr/local/lib >> for modules, instead of /usr/lib. >> > > ??? > > Perl -

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Jacqui Caren
Simon Reap wrote: > Tim wrote: >> Secondly, where is the perl interpeter installed, is it /usr/lib/perl5 >> or /usr/lib/perl I need to make a link from the interpeter to /usr/bin/perl >> or change the first line of a lot of scripts, I am opting to make the link >> > I would advise against maki

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Pope
Tim wrote: > now I assume this means I make a folder called mwf in the /var/www/ folder so > that I have /var/www/mwf/Am I right?? Yes, but I don't recommend you do exactly that. The FHS sets out what should go where on a Linux filesystem. That standard recommends /srv/ for files that are t

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-14 Thread Simon Reap
Tim wrote: > Secondly, where is the perl interpeter installed, is it /usr/lib/perl5 > or /usr/lib/perl I need to make a link from the interpeter to /usr/bin/perl > or change the first line of a lot of scripts, I am opting to make the link > I would advise against making a symbolic link for per

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-13 Thread Tim
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 23:10:05 Vic wrote: > > shell> mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mwf/ > > > > now I assume this means I make a folder called mwf in the /var/www/ > > folder so that I have /var/www/mwf/Am I right?? > > That depends on your installation... > > Have a look through your apa

Re: [Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-13 Thread Vic
> shell> mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mwf/ > > now I assume this means I make a folder called mwf in the /var/www/ folder > so that I have /var/www/mwf/Am I right?? That depends on your installation... Have a look through your apache config file & look for the keyword "DocumentRoot". If yo

[Hampshire] Am I correct

2009-01-13 Thread Tim
I was going to leave this to Saturdays BAB but I am impatience and it no fun somebody else doing it!! I am trying to install some forum software on my laptop to play around with (mwforum to be exact). Now the instruction states shell> mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mwf/ now I assume this mea