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Author: M.Prince (15 Dec 04 5:33pm)
Yikes! Sorry about that. Didn't mean to break your entire MT install!
Looks like you're missing a module that is needed to run the Project Honey Pot MT Plugin. Typically it's included with MT installs, but it may not have gotten installed on your computer. Before I go through the process of explaining how to install it, let me give you the good news: you have actually installed and activated your honey pot already, so you don't need to go through the process of making the plugin work if you're willing to add some links to the honey pot page by hand; and that's easy. Let me explain how to do that first, then I'll walk through how to install Storable.pm.
You have installed and activated the actual honey pot. You can find it here:
http://www.[somethingscary]box.com/cgi-bin/movabletype/erosion.cgi
(Where you replace [somethingscary] with what's appropriate for your actual site. Should be pretty obvious to you, but won't give away the location of your honey pot to anyone else reading this board.)
If you visit that page you'll see a lot of legal mumbo-jumbo. If you view the source of the page, down near the bottom there will be an email address. That's the address we're feeding to harvesters when they visit your site. It changes with each new visitor so we can track who the bad guys are and when they were prowling your pages. As far as I can tell, everything is working fine. The only trick is that from your existing pages you need to add some links to the honey pot page for the harvesters to follow.
To do this manually, visit the following page:
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/linking_instructions.php?hpid=40796
You may be prompted for your username and password. On that page there will be instructions on how to create links on your pages that harvesters will follow, but will be invisible to your human visitors. Just go scatter a few of these through your existing MT templates and you'll be all set. The only thing the Plugin does is add these links to your pages automatically. It also randomizes their formats in order to make it hard for harvesters to detect. But, if you're willing to do it manually, it's probably 95% as good.
That said, if you want to make the Plugin work, here's what you can do to install the required module. The first thing to try is to see if you can use the CPAN automatic installer. At the command line for your server, try entering:
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install Storable"
It'll ask you for your password. Assuming you've got the CPAN automatic installer configured, that should get it installed for you lickity-split. If that doesn't work, you can install it manually by downloading it from here:
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AM/AMS/Storable-2.13.tar.gz
Again, if you're happy with adding links manually then you're already up and running and just need to make a couple HTML edits to your existing templates. If you want the full-blown version of the Plugin, then try installing Storable.pm and that will probably fix the problem.
Sorry for the trouble, and welcome to the Project. (I, by the way, keep thinking it's Thursday.... not sure if that's better or worse than it feeling like Monday.)
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