NAME

       Perlbal::Manual::Install - Steps, dependencies and requirements to install Perlbal

   VERSION
       Perlbal 1.78.

   DESCRIPTION
       How to install Perlbal.

   Installing Perlbal for the impatient
           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

           cpan> install Perlbal

       App::cpanminus is also good at quickly installing Perlbal and all of its dependencies

           $ cpanm Perlbal IO::AIO Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders

       ... will give you an ideal Perlbal environment.

   Installing Perlbal (with a little more detail)
       You need to have perl on the machine. If you don't have it yet, you can grab it from
       http://www.perl.org/.

       Having perl on the machine should give you access to the CPAN shell, one of several
       possible ways to install and upgrade Perl modules.

       Start your CPAN shell:

           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

       And now tell it to install Perlbal:

           cpan> install Perlbal

       In the end you should see a message stating "make install  -- OK" (if that's not the case,
       please refer to section Troubleshooting later in this document).

   Installing Perlbal by hand (without using the CPAN shell)
       Head to <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/> and find the download link. Download the
       file and untar it:

           $ tar zxvf Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz

       Note that X.XX stands for the version number. Replace that with the latest version you
       got.

       Now you need to create the Makefile and run it; we're also going to run the tests before
       installing Perlbal:

           $ cd Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz

           $ perl Makefile.PL

           $ make

           $ make test

           $ sudo make install

   Installing the latest development version
       You can clone Perlbal's repository from github and install it by hand by following the
       next steps:

           $ git clone http://github.com/perlbal/Perlbal.git

           $ cd Perlbal

           $ perl Makefile.PL

           $ make

           $ make test

           $ sudo make install

   Optional Dependencies and Asynchronous IO
       It is very highly recommended that Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders is installed and enabled. If
       you have poor performance, the first thing to do is install Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders.

           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

           cpan> install Perlbal::XS::HTTPHeaders

       Enable it in your configuration:

           XS enable headers

       Perlbal checks for IO::AIO availability and uses it to perform asynchronous IO operations.
       If you're performing disk operations (e.g., using Perlbal as a web server), having IO::AIO
       will improve your response times.

       The only thing required in order to benefit from this feature is to install IO::AIO:

           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

           cpan> install IO::AIO

       If you don't have IO::AIO installed a warning message will be displayed when you start
       perlbal:

           WARNING:  AIO mode disabled or not available.
                     Perlbal will run slowly under load if you're doing any
                     disk operations. (e.g. web_server mode).
                     Install IO::AIO for better performance.

   Checking that Perlbal is successfully installed
       Perlbal is shipped with some sample configuration files that reside in the conf directory
       (of the source).

       You can give Perlbal a try by heading to the directory where the source is and using the
       following command:

           $ sudo perlbal -c conf/webserver.conf

       By pointing your browser at "localhost:80" you should now see Perlbal responding (showing
       you the contents of "/usr/share/doc").

       Note that the webserver.conf file sets up a Perlbal web server that listens on port 80. If
       you already have something listening on port 80 you need to either stop that service or
       change the port number on webserver.conf.

       Also note that if your machine doesn't have a "/usr/share/docs" directory you'll see an
       "ERROR: Directory not found for service docs" error message. Change the directory in the
       configuration file to something that exists.

   Troubleshooting
       Prerequisites not found

       If you're installing Perlbal by hand you may encounter some error messages describing how
       some prerequisites are not available:

           user@machine:~/Perlbal-X.XX$ perl Makefile.PL
           Checking if your kit is complete...
           Looks good
           Warning: prerequisite BSD::Resource 0 not found.
           Warning: prerequisite Danga::Socket 1.44 not found.
           Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Date 0 not found.
           Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Response 0 not found.
           Warning: prerequisite Sys::Syscall 0 not found.
           Writing Makefile for Perlbal

       This is perl's way of telling you that since you're installing Perlbal by hand you'll also
       need to install its prerequisites by hand. Your first choice is to download each of them
       separately and perform the same installation procedure for each. Unfortunately, they are
       all likely to have additional prerequisites. Recursively.

       Alternately, see the following Troubleshooting item: "No connection to the internet".

       No connection to the internet

       If you don't have a connection to the internet you can still install Perlbal, but you'll
       have to tranfer the source somehow to the machine.

       Given that Perlbal has other module dependencies from CPAN (and those have their own
       dependencies too), here's a solution for this problem:

       Step 1: On a machine with connection to the internet, install CPAN::Mini:

           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

           cpan> install CPAN::Mini

       Run "minicpan" to create a minimal CPAN mirror (it contains only the latest version of
       each module):

           $ minicpan -l /home/user/minicpan/ -r http://cpan.org/

       Now grab that directory and record it to something you can read on the other machine
       (e.g., a DVD, a hard drive).

       Once you're on that machine, you can run the CPAN shell and tell it to look for
       distributions on the local directory where you now have your own CPAN mirror:

           $ perl -MCPAN -e shell

           cpan> o conf urllist push file:///home/user/path/to/minicpan

           cpan> install Perlbal

       If you want "cpan" to record this change don't forget to commit:

           cpan> o conf commit

       No compiler available

       If there's no compiler available on the machine you will probably see an error ending in
       something like:

           Failed during this command:
            DORMANDO/Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status -1

       You need to install something like "gcc" (check <http://gcc.gnu.org/>).

       After installing "gcc", when trying to install Perlbal again you may get another error
       message:

           cpan> install Perlbal
           Running install for module 'Perlbal'
           Running make for D/DO/DORMANDO/Perlbal-X.XX.tar.gz
             Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/myself/.cpan/build/Perlbal-X.XX-GFko0J
             '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status -1, won't make
           Running make test
             Make had some problems, won't test
           Running make install
             Make had some problems, won't install

       This is the cpan shell assuming nothing changed in the system and skipping a few steps.
       You need to let it know you're willing to forget the past:

           cpan> look Perlbal

           $ rm -rf *

           $ exit

       And now you can try installation again:

           cpan> install Perlbal

   SEE ALSO
       Perlbal::Manual.