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# Configuration Problems

Most MiniVend configuration and setup problems are due to one of:

Wrong information given to makecat program

  THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST COMMON PROBLEM.

  To install a working demo, MiniVend needs to know what DocumentRoot is and how to run CGI programs. Details of this setup are server- and site-specific, and you may need to do some research.

  Re-run the configuration again, and pay close attention to the prompts given. There are examples given which apply to most systems.

  If your web server is Apache or NCSA, Minivend will try and parse its `httpd.conf` file to help you along, but many ISPs don't allow users to read these and it may fail.

Too-low version of Perl

  If you have a Perl earlier than 5.005, MiniVend will not work. Don't even try an earlier version; you must update.

Perl compiled with USE_THREADS

  Run `perl -V`. If you see -DUSE_THREADS in the compilation definition, you might run into problems with MiniVend.

- VLINK or TLINK compile problems
- We're sorry, the MiniVend server is unavailable...
- Error -- the MiniVend server was not running...
- I get messages like 'Config.pm not found'. What does it mean?
- Your demo has a very large price for the first item, and when I change the quantity the price drops precipitously.
- Can't locate lib.pm in @INC. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
- Can I run MiniVend on my Macintosh?
- Shopping cart is dropped when using SSL.
- Segmentation fault or other core dump
- XXXXXX.pm does not match executable version.
- MiniVend doesn't work with RedHat 5.0 (glibc)

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