Here are some notes on installing the validator, so you can test and work with the CVS version on Ubuntu Linux.
On my machine I use Eclipse which stores files in ~/workspace/ – all of my paths are based off of this, and I add an alias to apache so that all my eclipse projects are available at http://localhost/workspace/{project}
For my setup, I have checked out the validator source code in ~/workspace/validator/ which shows up at http://localhost/workspace/validator/. Modify the paths if your CVS checkout is in a different location.
To get a snapshot of the latest files for the validator you can use:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public checkout validator, which will create a validator directory with the latest files.
Make sure your apache configuration has includes enabled, and will process the cgi script — modify the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file — sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, and add the following:
# This is the directory where you have the validator's "check"
# script as well as its and *.html, *.css etc files.
<Directory /home/bbieber/workspace/validator/htdocs>
Options ExecCGI IncludesNOEXEC Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride None
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddCharset utf-8 .html
</Directory>
# Tell httpd that "check" is a CGI script.
<Location "/workspace/validator/htdocs/check">
SetHandler cgi-script
</Location>
Then, in the CVS files you have checked out, symbolically link the ‘check’ file within the htdocs directory:
cd htdocs
ln -s ../httpd/cgi-bin/check check
So that the file check -> ../httpd/cgi-bin/check
cd ../httpd
chmod +x check
Install the modules and dependencies:
sudo apt-get install opensp xmlto
sudo cpan install Config::General Encode::HanExtra Encode::JIS2K HTML::Encoding HTML::Template Test::Exception Class::Accessor Test::Builder Sub::Uplevel Test::Builder::Tester
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/openjade/OpenSP-1.5.2.tar.gz
gunzip OpenSP-1.5.2.tar.gz
tar -xvf OpenSP-1.5.2.tar
cd OpenSP-1.5.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo cpan install SGML::Parser::OpenSP XML::LibXML Net::IP
