Mason_Ubuntu9

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Hi everyone,

I decided to give some tips about HMTL::Mason installation.

So let's start!

What you need?

Ubuntu (9.04/9.10) - Actually it could run on every old version

We will need Gcc (C compiler) so run the command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Apache2 - I used apache2-threaded-dev
Mod_perl2 - libapache2-mod-perl2

sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev libapache2-mod-perl2

Do you need a SQL server ? I use MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-query-browser

Now we use cpan to install the files

at cpan do :

install HMTL::Mason
- do the default installation, and be sure it not fails

i use DBix::Class (an ORM ... if you want it, this will map your database, so you can avoid writting SQL)

install DBIx::Class (yes the 'x' is smallcase)

Now we gonna config our Apache2

do sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and write this :

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [your@mail.com]
ServerAlias [alias ex: mason]
DocumentRoot /var/www/[your_website]/docs
PerlSetVar MasonCompRoot /var/www/[your_website]/
PerlSetVar MasonDataDir /var/www/[your_website]/

<LocationMatch "\.html|mc$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>

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save and close it!

now sudo gedit /etc/hosts

in the same line of 127.0.0.1 write your alias, close and save it

restart apache2: sudo service apache2 restart

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So.. now your are ready to use HTML::Mason!

I usually create my website at /var/www/[appname]/

and i divide it with folders : docs, comps, bin and lib

docs to .html
comps to .mc (mason component)
bin to .pl (perl scripts)
lib to .pm (DBIx::Class modules for example)

and if you want to transport all data with sql i create another folder called db, this is where i put my sql script file.


When you finished write a small script in the docs folder, call it index.html or autohandler

write in it : <% 2+2 %>

close and save!

go to the browser and write : http://[your_alias] and you should see the number 4 (four)

Hope you enjoyed!

Davidslv




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