fionbarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've done a new installation of Active Perl v18 and when trying to run CPAN I'm getting the following error: 
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com
+[80] <10061>]

Help please.

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Re: code[500] message
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 14, 2014 at 13:14 UTC

    Do you need to configure a proxy?

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Re: code[500] message
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 14, 2014 at 13:22 UTC

    G'day fionbarr,

    See HTTP Status Code Definitions for explanations of code[500] (and other status codes).

    "CPAN down again..." was posted in the last hour: no doubt the cause of the error "when trying to run CPAN".

    Update: See marto's reply to this post. CPAN being down seemed to be the most likely explanation; however, not the right explanation in this case.

    -- Ken

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      ppm.activestate.com is unrelated to the issues at search.cpan.org.

      Update: For clarity, only the web based search interface to cpan is having issues, this has no impact on downloading from cpan.org or any of it's hundreds of mirrors.

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        Thanks for the correction. I've updated my post. ++ (when the Vote Fairy next makes her rounds :-)

        -- Ken

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Re: code[500] message
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jul 14, 2014 at 15:28 UTC

    500, of course, is “internal server error,” and this has been talked about before.   And, as a simple DuckDuckGo search for “500 ppm activestate com” tells me, also here and here.

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