Ver 10/Windows 7 Bug in Perl Script

[cordelia]

Hello everyone

I'm working with the latest Version 10 on Windows 7. All my settings are correct and the server meets all the requirements set out in the Actinic documentation. However I can't pass the network settings test or upload the site because of a scripting error.

Actinic support said they couldn't help and blamed my hosting service. I paid my hosting service extra to look into it and they reported the following:



The root issue was a syntax error on line 2 of the script:

**original code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
?use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

**changed code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Note the extra "?" in line 2 next to use. The script is error-free now:

[cgi-bin]$ perl -c ca000145.pl
ca000145.pl syntax OK


Is this bug something that should be fixed by Actinic? I don't want to have to debug perl scripts all the time.

Cordelia

[NormanRouxel]

That file works fine on tens of thousands of sites using numerous hosts. Much more likely to be a problem at your end than a bug in Actinic.

File ca000145.pl is generated by Actinic from ShoppingCart.pl (in your Site folder).

The first 2 lines of that should be:

#!<Actinic:Variable Name="PerlPath"/>
#?use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Post what you see there.

[cordelia]

Actinic used the same argument - thousands of happy users. That just annoys me though because my installation won't work (even though all my settings are correct).

The script WAS as you listed it but my hosting service claim that the initial question mark in the second line was making the script fail and when they took it out, the script executed

However, they don't know Actinic but Actinic support are blaming them....

Stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Below are my exported settings

cordelia

HTTPPROXYMODE 0
HTTPPROXYADDRESS
HTTPPROXYPORT 80
HTTPPROXYUSER
HTTPPROXYPASSWORD
FTPPROXYMODE 0
FTPPROXYADDRESS
FTPPROXYPORT 21
FTPPROXYUSER
FTPPROXYPASSWORD
SCRIPTID 1
SCRIPTEXT .pl
SMTPHOST localhost
WEBSITEURL http://www.demistifi.com
IGNOREPASSIVEERRORS true
USERELATIVECGIURLS true
PATHTOPERL /usr/bin/perl
USEENHANCEFTP true
FTPCLIENTTIMEOUT 15000
FTPRETRYDELAY 3000
FTPKEEPALIVEINTERVAL 30000
FTPSILENT false
FTPMAXRETRIES 3
FTPCONNECTTIMEOUT 25000
SMTPAUTHREQUIRED false
SMTPUSERNAME
SMTPPASSWORD
COMPRESSIONPACKETSIZE 1024
COMPRESSEDUPLOAD true
CATALOGURL http://www.demistifi.com/acatalog/
ONLINESTOREFOLDERNAME acatalog
CGIBINURL http://demistifi.com/cgi-bin/
PATHFROMCGITOCATALOG ../public_html/acatalog/
CODEBASE ./
FTPHOST ftp.gip.superb.net
FTPUSERNAME ******
FTPPASSWORD ******
PATHTOCGIBIN demistifi.com/cgi-bin/
USEPASSIVEFTP false
FTPPATHFROMCGITOCATALOG

[pmsupport]

Hi Cordelia,

I have just sent you an email.

You should now be able to upload your Actinic site ok. We believe something has been changed on the server recently (Possibly enabling ASCII2 uploads) which now allows the site to upload ok. I also attached corrected network settings as the "www" was missing from the cgi-bin URL.

Paul

[NormanRouxel]

OP

All my settings are correct

(even though all my settings are correct)

Then it seems that:

the "www" was missing from the cgi-bin URL

And the problem was at the server end.