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Hi,
I am a newbie, I want to install a Perl script named "Movable Type", I am unable to configure it myself, so I was searching for a software that could provide me to install this script very easily and I came across AMPPS, a Softaculous product. Had anyone use this software, if yes then how is this software and how can I install this script using AMPPS ?
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Do you really need an installer for a script? The whole point of scripting is supposed to be the simplicity of it. If you really need an installer, then maybe scripting isn't for you.
What are you using the script for? Is it just an extension for Perl?
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To be fair cpan is specifically used for installing modules in perl.
Certainly I haven't installed any perl modules or perl itself for many years without using some sort of installer.
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You certainly can't compare the installation of perl with running a script in perl. Perl itself is a complex arrangement of packages and an interpreter... a script can be a simple two line text file. If you need to run a script that requires an installer, you probably should be doing it as a program instead of a script.
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Paul1586 wrote: I am a newbie, I want to install a Perl script named "Movable Type", I am unable to configure it myself
What does that mean exactly.
If you install something and it requests/requires information from the user during install then the user needs to figure out what that info means.
If you were installing in multiple locations on fixed platform targets (all the same) then you could simplify the install by putting in appropriate values. However YOU would need to first figure out what the correct values were.
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Movable Type isn't just a single perl script. It is a multi-user blogging system (I thought it reminded me of a site I'd used when I set it up and that is indeed what plinky.com is using - no plug intended)
Setting it up under windoze was relatively easy. Copy the mt directory to somewhere under the web server's document root, modify the httpd.conf, add a perl module or too as required by the config cgi (it tells you what's missing), and fix the #! lines in the cgi's for windoze. Setting up a new user via the register link requires that outgoing mail is working properly. Had to search in the online documentation for the config file settings it needs for SMTP.
Took me a grand total of 45 minutes, never having installed/configured MT before. I did take the easy route and used SQLite instead of trying Mysql or Postgresql (both are currently on my windoze box though)
Installation under linux would be easier, no editing all those cgi's by hand (not really enough for a script for a single time install but the creators could have included one...)
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