If you don't have the access to install a module in the root
directory, this is the way you can do it - unless you ask the web
host to install the module you want specifically. And I believe a
module is meant to be executable, so I'm unclear about your remark
there.
>On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Teresa Raymond wrote:
> > Make sure you have created a "lib" folder in your CGI-BIN, upload the
> > folder(MIME)/module(Lite.pm) into it. Make sure you've set
> > permissions to read all, search/execute all.
>
>Placing anything other than CGI scripts, that are meant to be executed, in
>cgi-bin is probably not a good idea. I'm not aware of any specific issues
>with it, but with the wide variety of web servers and configurations out
>there it could very well become an issue. Besides, on a purely
>organizational basis, it's just not the correct place. I would suggest
>placing them in a perl5lib or other lib directory, outside of the document
>root, and outside of cgi-bin (assuming cgi-bin isn't in the document root).
>
>Also, it's best to install modules using CPAN.pm, or at least untarring a
>tarball and going through the 'perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make
>install' process. See perldoc -q 'my own module' for tips on how to install
>modules like this into your own library directory.
>
>
>Michael
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