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Configuration Problems

Most MiniVend configuration and setup problems are due to one of:

Too-low version of Perl
If you have a Perl earlier than 5.004, installation is problematical and will require diving into the source of MiniVend. Don't try it; update.

Broken Perl version.
BSDI and FreeBSD distributions often come with a version of Perl like 5.003_02 or 5.003_07. These are development versions of Perl which cannot be used to run MiniVend in the normal course of events. Get and install Perl 5.004.

RedHat Linux 5.0 distributed a broken Perl; update it if you have an RPM earlier than February 1998.

Wrong information given to makecat program
To install a working demo, MiniVend needs to know what DocumentRoot is and how to run CGI programs. Details of this setup are server- and site-specific, and you may need to do some research.

If your web server is Apache or NCSA, Minivend will try and parse its httpd.conf file to help you along, but many ISPs don't allow users to read these and it may fail.




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