R help - Jun 2006 - Having a go at Rpad

Context: FreeBSD 6.1on a pentium 4; apache 2 server up & running; mod_perl 
installed; java & php 4 working.

Willing to use Rpad on an office intranet, I installed the Rpad package 
(R2HTML was still there) and carefully read the instructions to set up a 
server.

Now,  on the server I can start the http://localhost/Rpad homepage, I can 
click on and browse the three examples ("General Example", "Data
Input
Example" & "GUI example"), BUT ....
whenever I click on the "calculate" button in those example pages the 
underlying perl programs are browsed, listed  and nothing seems to happen.

Please help to straigthen my Rpad installation up

Ciao
Vittorio

P.S. By the way those perl progs seems to point to a /var/www/Rpad directory. 
That's why I installed the ../basehtml dir under that directory and
symlinked
it to unix usual web dir :/usr/local/www/Rpad

That means that Apache doesn't know to execute the perl files.
Something's
wrong with your Apache configuration or directory permissions. Some things
to check:

* Make sure the *.pl files in ../Rpad/server/ are set to enable execution.

* Check your apache http.conf. You need something like the following to tell
perl that those *.pl files are executable (with the directory renamed as
appropriate):

<Directory /var/www/Rpad/server*>  
  <IfModule mod_perl.c>
    <Files *.pl> # requires mod_perl
      SetHandler perl-script
      PerlHandler Apache::Registry
      Options +ExecCGI
      PerlSendHeader ON
    </Files>
  </IfModule>
  Options +ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .pl
  <IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive on
    ExpiresDefault "now plus 0 seconds"
  </IfModule>
</Directory>

* Check your apache error logs; they might give you some insight. 

If none of those fixes it, contact me offline with more details.

- Tom


vittorio wrote:
> 
> Context: FreeBSD 6.1on a pentium 4; apache 2 server up & running;
mod_perl
> installed; java & php 4 working.
> 
> Willing to use Rpad on an office intranet, I installed the Rpad package 
> (R2HTML was still there) and carefully read the instructions to set up a 
> server.
> 
> Now,  on the server I can start the http://localhost/Rpad homepage, I can 
> click on and browse the three examples ("General Example",
"Data Input
> Example" & "GUI example"), BUT ....
> whenever I click on the "calculate" button in those example pages
the
> underlying perl programs are browsed, listed  and nothing seems to happen.
> 
> Please help to straigthen my Rpad installation up
> 
> Ciao
> Vittorio
> 
> P.S. By the way those perl progs seems to point to a /var/www/Rpad
> directory. 
> That's why I installed the ../basehtml dir under that directory and
> symlinked 
> it to unix usual web dir :/usr/local/www/Rpad
> 
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