Dear monks,

I just wrote an Perl "survey script" which uses CGI.pm and XML::Simple.

The program works fine, however, when I upload it to my webserver - which is virtually hosted :( - It dies. Not gracefully, either... the browser reports that it's still "Waiting Request."

Here's the error message from the server log.

Can't locate loadable object for module XML::Parser::Expat in @INC (@I
+NC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /us
+r/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
+ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at XML/Parser.pm line 15
Compilation failed in require at XML/Parser.pm line 15.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at XML/Parser.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at XML/Simple.pm line 224.
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So I thought, and I remembered that I asked in the chatterbox if one could use a module, even if one doesn't have access to that machine. I was told that you could, either by simply uploading it, or putting the guts of the module in your file.

I tried uploading XML::Simple, and all its dependencies (The entire XML, LWP, and URI directories under perl/site/lib), to no avail. I also added

BEGIN{
 push (@INC,
"/home/httpd/vhosts/newrisedesigns.com/cgi-bin",
"/home/httpd/vhosts/newrisedesigns.com/cgi-bin/XML",
/home/httpd/vhosts/newrisedesigns.com/cgi-bin/XML/Parser");
}
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I'd like to keep the XML component (it's how the votes are stored on the server) however, I might have to scrap it if I can't get it working. :(

I'm stuck again, and I greatly appreciate any help you are willing to offer.

John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com