[WM] Need to be root?

[Darren Cole]

Lou,

	Depends on how you run it.

	I run it on the command line, so I just type webmake as myself.   
Once it generates the files I have a script that copies them locally,  
and then uploads them to my server.  The only trick was to change the  
PERL5LIB to include where I put the webmake perl modules (which was  
not the regular perl library location).  None of this needed root.

	If you want to run it as a cgi I would think you could do so without  
being root as long as you can set the PERL5LIB environment variable  
for apache.  It should be possible, but since I have run the  
webmake.cgi myself I don't really know for sure.  Maybe someone else  
on the list can tell you

Darren

On Nov 11, 2005, at 2:44 , Lou wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a Perl CMS that can be used in a virtual hosting  
> environment.
>
> I see that under Unix you apparently need to be root to install. Is  
> this really necessary? I also saw there is a webmake.cgi that does  
> not require root access. What functionality would I not have if I  
> use only webmake.cgi?
>
> Regards,
> Lou.