cpdan,
My assignment here is to do an install of Koha, a freeware library management system, for evaluation purposes. Koha is written in Perl and uses the mysql database, Apache, and zebra, a Z39.50 based retrieval product (also freeware).
Users would connect to the database from their Web browsers, by entering the address
http://ourserver/phpmyadmin, which I presume connects to a certain port, Here Koha and zebra work together to give the user a connection to the mysql database. $dbh is the handle by which mysql and Koha communicate --I confess to not knowing the details, this is all "under the hood". But it is at this point -- attempting to connect using a browser -- that the error occurs. (It also occurs attempting to queue zebra.)
If I wrote an external script, it would be a challenge for me to know exactly where this piece would fit in the existing design of the product, which is not really documented.
Are you saying that there is not a way to make this work otherwise?
That is, there is no way that DBI->connect can be located via some different way of installing CPAN modules or some different path settings?
Thanks,
SS