Esteemed colleagues,

I get to answer my own question!

The secret is to NOT try to do it with CPAN. Two things happen. Firstly, during the make test portion the script will attempt to start the Apache server. If it cannot find it you need to manually enter the information. By being able to do this in a manual install I was able to complete the tests.

Secondly, you still need to be root to install, so you just do an 'su' and run the make install as root.

The same sort of problem occurs when installing libapreq.pl, and Apache::Request.

Of course, YMMV! jdtoronto

In reply to Re: Trouble installing Apache::Test as root. by jdtoronto
in thread Trouble installing Apache::Test as root. by jdtoronto

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