The following mods have been released by Actinic to improve performance and upload of Actinic 9.0.3 and above.  They are installed on PB018 and PB024 and will will installed on to client dedicated servers on request.  Please contact us if you have a dedicated server with us to request installation.

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Hosting Perl Requirements

This document lists the perl modules that are required to enhance the performance of an Actinic site.

The following PERL modules should be installed (some/all may be installed as standard, it’s entirely dependent on the host operating system):

Standard:

Exporter;
File::Temp;
LWP::UserAgent;
CGI;
CGI::Carp;

Other:

Digest::MD5;
This is a light encryption module used heavily in the scripts. It improves the script performance especially for customer account enabled sites.

Crypt::SSLeay;
Net::SSL;
This implements https communication with third party servers (e.g. UPS and some Payment Service Providers).

Archive::Zip
Required for compressed upload after 9.0.3. When this package is installed EC sends the html files compressed to the server improving the upload speed. If it's not available there will be no improvements on upload speed.

(available from http://cpan.perl.org/)

The following Actinic modules should be installed:

ActEncrypt1024 downloadable from http://www.actinic.co.uk/support/actencrypt1024.htm
The binary version of the functions used for order blob encryption. It makes the order recording (last checkout phase) quicker. This module has to be obtained from Actinic and then compiled and installed.


The PERL modules can be found in various package formats, depending on host operating system and version (RPM’s for RedHat, as an example).

You can test if a module is installed using the following at a command line (shell):

perl -e "require File::Temp; print $@;"

Change ‘File::Temp’ to the module you wish to test for. If the module is present nothing will be returned, if it is missing an error will be returned.