Hi monks and nuns of the Monastery. I'm having trouble setting up cpanplus running on Gnu/Linux to use a partial cpan mirror (a Mini-cpan created with the code of that name) ...on another Linux system on my LAN. On that server I have apache running and serving (a few) static web pages successfully. I acknowledge that this question may have less to do with Perl and more with system administration & configuration, but there are undoubtedly monks here who are very good at that stuff too.

Here's a snippet of what my cpanplus config currently holds:

    $Conf->{'conf'}->{'hosts'} = [
            {
                'scheme' => 'http',
                'path' => '/www/public/minicpan',
                'host' => '192.168.1.7'
            },

            {
                'scheme' => 'http',
                'path' => '/',
                'host' => 'www.cpan.org'
            },
        ];

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I've tried the following variations on path =>:

/minicpan
/public/minicpan
/www/public/minicpan

But none of these work. The failure is seen as

CPAN Terminal> i Archive::Any --verbose

  Installing Archive::Any (0.0946)
  [MSG] Trying to get 'http://192.168.1.7/www/public/minicpan/authors/
+id/O/OA/OALDERS/Archive-Any-0.0946.tar.gz'
  Fetch failed! HTTP response: 404 Not Found [404 Not Found] at /usr/l
+ocal/lib/perl5/site_perl/CPANPLUS/Internals/Fetch.pm line 398.

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That's pretty clear. One more detail I ought to add is that my minicpan is actually located in /var/mirrors/minicpan:


total 32
drwxr-xr-x 3 somian somian  4096 Jun 23 14:51 authors
drwxr-xr-x 2 somian somian  4096 Jun 23 14:51 modules
-rw-r--r-- 1 somian somian 23768 Jun 23 14:51 RECENT

and I've made a symlink to /var/mirrors/minicpan from /var/www/public/minicpan. Does this seem like a sane setup? I'd be really jazzed if I could get it to work. Thanks in advance for giving me a look.

  Soren

Jun 26, 2025 at 19:35 UTC

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In reply to Minicpan mirror on lan, not working with cpanplus client by Intrepid

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