- From: Allan Smith <webmanager@telfordsteamrailway.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:41:00 +0100
- To: "'www-validator Community'" <www-validator@w3.org>
A summary of my experiences installing a local copy of Validator on XP Pro with IIS I have to conclude that at this time, 25 Sept 2007, it is not possible to install a local copy of Validator 0.8 on an XP Pro system. The nature of the problems is such that I can only conclude that this would be true for both IIS and Apache servers (see below). 1. I have an existing XP Pro system with IIS, PHP and MySQL working. PHP and MySQL are installed on d:. IIS is set up to serve files from d:\wwwroot. 2. I followed instruction on http://validator.w3.org/docs/install_win.html and downloaded http://validator.w3.org/validator.tar.gz (the validator itself) and http://validator.w3.org/sgml-lib.tar.gz (the DTDs). I also downloaded ActivePerl (version 5.8) and the Perl modules ready-to-install in a single zip-file. 3. I installed the Validator in d:\wwwroot\validator. 4. I was aware that the validator .html files used SSI and that there would be an issue with this as IIS does not support the same set of SSI commands as Apache. I converted all of the .html files to use PHP instead. 5. IIS does not support virtual hosts so it was necessary to check all of the .html files to ensure that the paths referred to the correct path on my server. This was done entirely using PHP and relative paths, so the validator could be located anywhere on the server. 6. IIS does not support ScriptAlias so I changed all references to ‘check’ in the submit action events to refer to ‘check.pl’ instead and changed the name of the ‘check’ file to ‘check.pl’ 7. At this point the Validator front end was serving up functional pages and trying to launch ‘check.pl’ – but as Perl was not yet installed it naturally failed. 8. I installed Perl using the .msi distro into d:\perl. I installed the modules into d:\perl\pmm. I followed instruction in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245225 to ensure IIS was serving .pl correctly. In addition to the settings described in this guide I had to use the Internet Information Services manager t set ‘Script Source Access’ in the ‘Home Directory’ tab on the web site properties page. After this the ‘test.pl’ page was served correctly. 9. I edited ‘check.pl’ as indicated in http://validator.w3.org/docs/install_win.html to have the appropriate path settings for my windows instalment. The instructions also say change the line “file_cache_dir => File::Spec->catdir(File::Spec->tmpdir(), 'validator'),” to “file_cache_dir => 'C:/temp/validator',”. I was unable to locate this line and advised that this was no longer necessary in the new version of the Validator. 10. I then installed all of the Perl Modules listed in http://validator.w3.org/docs/install_win.html using the ‘pmm.bat’ file to launch the pmm GUI. The PMM manager GUI indicated XSLoader was not installed but would not install it! In order to get XSLoader installed I had to use the PMM command line. 11. I then tried to validate a page on my local server using the local installation. I launched the validator and entered ‘http://server/test.html’ as the page to validate. (I had already tested that IIS would serve this page to my browser). 12. I received an error indicating the "Encode, Encode::HanExtra” module was missing. I found that this was included with the Perl .msi install and all I had to do was ‘load’ it using PMM.. I then got an error indicating that "Encode, Encode::JIS2K” was missing. I was unable to locate a copy of this so commented out the relevant ‘use’ line in ‘check.pl’ as support for japaneese was not important to me. I could also have commented out the HanExtra line as I don’t need Chineese support. 13. At this point running Validator to validate a file produced the error Can't load 'D:/perl/site/lib/auto/SGML/Parser/OpenSP/OpenSP.dll' for module SGML::Parser::OpenSP: load_file:The specified module could not be found at D:/perl/site/lib/XSLoader.pm line 64. at D:/perl/site/lib/SGML/Parser/OpenSP.pm line 18 Compilation failed in require at d:\wwwroot\validator\httpd\cgi-bin\check.pl line 61. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at d:\wwwroot\validator\httpd\cgi-bin\check.pl line 61. 14. I have been unable to track down the source of this error as all referenced files in the error exist in the paths as given and no-one on the validator email group has offered any suggestions that help to diagnose the problem. I do not have sufficient experience with Perl to investigate further. This error is NOT related to the way IIS serves the files and thus I can only conclude that the same problem would exist if Apache was used instead. The problem may be the result of incorrect path settings or folder permissions. It is also interesting that XSloader installation was problematic, and is indicated the error that cannot be traced. It is also interesting that advice was given that TEMP files are not used, yet are referred to in the OpenSP.pm has, at line 63. This could be a folder that does not exist, does not have a ‘valid’ Windows format patrh or has incorrect priviledges. Allan Smith Webmanager Support Telford Steam Railway for free when shopping online with over 400 brand-name retailers including:- Amazon, NEXT, M&S, John Lewis, Debenhams, HMV, The Body Shop, Vodafone, DELL, Woolworths, PLAY.com, Interflora and Comet amongst many others... TSR Easyfundraisning
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