Re: [MacPerl] Mac Perl and WebBBS

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@mailbag.com>]

At 10:30 AM -0700 7/16/99, lfisher@fishertechinc.com (Fisher Technologies -
Leslie Fisher wrote:
>Hey There!
>
>I am working with a K-12 school district in Southern California which is
>100% Macintosh. I would like to run WebBBS (http://awsd.com/scripts/webbbs/)
>instead of newsgroups. WebBBS would be way simpler for students to
>understand.
>
>I cannot seem to get MacPerl and webBBS to work. Has anyone tried this? We
>are running WebStar and AppleShare but would have no problem purchasing
>different web software to make this thing work.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

It's a set of scripts designed to run on a Unix based perl system.  This
presents a number of problems:
1) All paths are wrong - they will need to be set to paths that are correct
for your Mac system - and need to be of the form
"HD:folder:folder:folder:file"
2) There is no sendmail available in most Mac installs.  Any code that is
sendmail dependant will need to be rewritten (probably using some form of
AppleScript or AppleEvents or Mac::glue) to work with *your* mail server
3) There may be dependancies on fork or other unix system tools that are
not available on the macintosh.
4) It may be designed with Apache in mind, and not WebSTAR.

I'd recommend, if you've paid money for this set of scripts, to ask them to
port it or give you your money back.

If you have not paid money for it, and decide you want to port it yourself
(and you might be able to sell the port back to them ;-), you should spend
some time with MacPerl:Power and Ease and ask any questions you have on the
macperl-webcgi forum.

Good Luck!

-Jeff Lowrey



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