Installation Problems using XAMPP (Apache , MySQL, PHP and Perl)

Did you change the path at the top of each .cgi file to reflect the Perl path for XAMPP? Also, did you install the Perl add-on?

Thanks for the response - here is what I have - can you help?

XAMPP and Pearl are installed on e:\
the path to the pearl directory is e:\xampp\pearl\bin\

I modified each of the .cgi files to point to that directory.
(i.e. #!E:\xampp\perl\bin -w)

I am still recieveing the same error:

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
couldn't create child process: 720005: mt.cgi

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 500

localhost
01/05/09 10:25:38
Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

Try E:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe -w as a replacement for /usr/bin/perl -w at the top of each cgi script.

My guess is that it's not working because you have been calling it "pearl," not "perl."

Yes - that did it! Hate Typos! Well at least it got me though one set of errors. Now here is what I am getting:

Got an error: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "MT::ObjectDriverFactory"

Any ideas?

Thanks again for all your help!

Did you install the Perl add-on kit from the XAMPP website? The Perl installation you get with the basic XAMPP installation is only the interpretter and a handful of libraries. Based on some googling, it sounds like you don't have the add-on kit installed which would provide DBD::MySQL.

Yes I installed the Perl add-on kit. Here is the output from running The mt-check.cgi script

System Information

Movable Type version: 4.23-en
Current working directory: E:/xampp/htdocs/MT
MT home directory: E:/xampp/htdocs/MT/
Operating system: MSWin32
Perl version: v5.10.0
Perl include path:
E:\xampp\htdocs\MT\addons\Community.pack\lib
E:\xampp\htdocs\MT\addons\Commercial.pack\lib
E:\xampp\htdocs\MT\extlib
E:\xampp\htdocs\MT\extlib
E:\xampp\htdocs\MT\lib
E:/xampp/perl/lib
E:/xampp/perl/site/lib
.
Web server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
(Probably) Running under cgiwrap or suexec

let me know if you want me to zip up the entire xampp folder with the MT install. As what I would like to create for everyone which would be nice is a complete Xampp / Movable Type dev configuration ready to go...i.e unzip, browse to localhost/mt and everything is setup to install MT

You can post a sanitized version of your mt-config.cgi and post the results for running:

E:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe -e "require DBD::MySQL"

E:\xampp\perl\bin>perl.exe -e "require DBD::MySQL"
DBI object version 1.607 does not match $DBI::VERSION 1.604 at E:/xampp/perl/lib
/DynaLoader.pm line 226.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at E:/xampp/perl/lib/DBI.pm line 263.
Compilation failed in require at E:/xampp/perl/site/lib/DBD/MySQL.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at E:/xampp/perl/site/lib/DBD/MySQL.pm line 7.

Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.

Here is the mt-config.cgi:

# The CGIPath is the URL to your Movable Type directory
CGIPath http://localhost/mt/

# The StaticWebPath is the URL to your mt-static directory
# Note: Check the installation documentation to find out
# whether this is required for your environment. If it is not,
# simply remove it or comment out the line by prepending a "#".
StaticWebPath http://www.example.com/mt-static

#================ DATABASE SETTINGS ==================
# REMOVE all sections below that refer to databases
# other than the one you will be using.

##### MYSQL #####
ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database mt
DBUser root
DBPassword root
DBHost localhost

Yes I am using XAMPP 1.7.0. I will drop down as sugested and let you know if that does the trick.

Thanks again for all your assistance.

I went town to XAMPP 1.6.5 and still come up with the same error:

Got an error: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "MT::ObjectDriverFactory"

Any ideas?

Ok - I made sure I wnt to XAMPP 1.6.5 and added the perl addon 5.8.8.2.2.3

When I run perl -e "require DBD::MySQL it executes no errors

However, I am still getting the error:
Got an error: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "MT::ObjectDriverFactory" when trying to install?

Have you succesfully installed MT in a clean XAMPP 1.6.5 and perl addon 5.8.8.2.2.3

Hi, I also had this problem with

Got an error: Can't locate object method "configure" via package "MT::ObjectDriverFactory"

It turns out that some perl libraries were missing: DBI and DBI::Pg (I tried to use PostgresQL database). If you want to use MySQL change DBI::Pg into DBI module suitable for your database.

Hey im having a similar problem can anyone help? I have xampp on windows i know i have perl correctly installed through 'perl -v' in command prompt (windows).
My script headers are right as i can see
#!c:/Perl/bin/perl.exe my scripts run ok in the cmd window aswell.

Placing test scripts in htdocs folder and accessing through 'localhost' path gets a 404 error html headers dont display either? Are there some additional settings i have to sort out? Anyone??

I am also having issues trying to get MT to work using XAMPP.

I am just getting a 404 page, so I know it must be something obvious.

CGIPath http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/

StaticWebPath http://localhost/mt-static

At the top of all of the .cgi files I have put

#!C:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe -w

I tried both upper case and lower case letter for the drive.