Re: A very severe Perl installation problem!!

To delete your Perl reboot in safe mode and the lock should be gone. The most reliable way on XP is as follows: From the Start menu's Run dialog, enter the command MSConfig. Click on the BOOT.INI tab and check the /SAFEBOOT box. Now when you boot, Windows will go into Safe mode. Naturally, when you no longer need Safe mode, you'll repeat the process and uncheck that box. One caveat: Don't experiment with the other settings on this tab. You could wind up unable to get back into MSConfig to undo your changes.

This works even if you have a USB keyboard that is dead due to lack of a driver when you boot. OK so in safe mode uninstall Perl. Unistall Apache as well. Uncheck the safe mode box and reboot.

Read and follow the steps in this tutorial

cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: A very severe Perl installation problem!! by dyer85 (Acolyte) on Oct 12, 2004 at 22:41 UTC
Thank you for your help tachyon! I don't know why I didn't come here sooner! I just wanted to let you know that I didn't have to end up booting up in safe mode. For some reason, when I Ctl+Alt+Deleted the Add/Remove programs app for Perl, it was still in a state of "installation," according to the error. This was why I couldn't delete the Perl directory directly. So, when I just booted up normally today, the deleting process went okay. I plan to download one of the Apache Mod_perl combos, so I don't have to go through as much grief. My only problem is, I already have PHP 5.0.0 working on my current Apache server, and I need to find an Apache + Mod_Perl package w/o PHP. Does anyone know of any good links for such a package. The reason why is that those packages with Apache, Mod_Perl, and PHP, have a PHP 4 version. Thank you again for your help, `$curtis = "Take care"; print $curtis;` [download] My site in progress	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: A very severe Perl installation problem!! by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 12, 2004 at 23:03 UTC
Have a look at WAMP which has Apache, Mysql and PHP5 by default and plugins for Perl or maybe Big Apache which has everything you want but uses PHP4 not 5. It should be trivial to change it from using 4 -> 5 simply edit these lines in your httpd.conf (in Apache /etc dir I expect) and restart apache. `#ScriptAlias /php4/ "C:/php4win/" ScriptAlias /php5/ "C:/php5win/" AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 #Action application/x-httpd-php "/php4/php.exe" Action application/x-httpd-php "/php5/php.exe"` [download] cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]