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Step-by-step Mac Tutorial for rankingfactors.pl

Some of your have asked me to create a tutorial for Mac for running rankingfactors.pl script. This post is the answer to your queries. Without further ado here are the steps:

PART 1 – Installing XAMPP & Copying Files

1> Download XAMPP for Mac at  this link

2> Install XAMPP using instructions at: this link (just a couple of steps)

3> At this point you can go to the htdocs folder on your Mac (/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs)

4> You can cleanup this folder by placing all files and folders into a single folder or leave it as is.

5> Assuming you have downloaded the windows version of SEO Warrior (xampp distribution) simply copy all files and folders from the ‘htdocs’ (windows) to your Mac ‘htdocs’ folder.

6> Copy TreeBuilder.pm, Element.pm from the Windows (zip:\xampp\perl\site\lib\HTML) distribution to /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/HTML/

7> Copy Round.pm from the Windows (zip:\xampp\perl\lib\Math\MATH) distribution to /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/5.10.0/Math

With this step you will avoid getting the following error message:
Can't locate HTML/TreeBuilder.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/5.10.0/darwin-2level /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/darwin-2level /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 .) at rankingfactors.pl line 25.
 
8> Next we need to setup the path. You can execute the following command in a Terminal window (just for this window session) or place it in your .profile file (as a more permanent solution). Note: this is a single line and the only white space is after the ‘export’ word.

export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/5.10.0:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/perl5/site_perl/:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/:$PATH

 You are now ready to run the script. Simply go to the /Applications/XAMPP/book/downloads/chapter-4 folder. (i.e. rankingfactors.pl 10 buy shoes)

That’s it! These instructions could also be helpful for Linux installations as well (especially the modules part).

Regards,
John

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2 Responses to “Step-by-step Mac Tutorial for rankingfactors.pl”

  1. dreamlife says:
    January 25, 2010 at 3:35 pm

    I already have xampp 1.7.2 installed, what do I do?

  2. John says:
    January 25, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    Please follow the tutorial from step (3). If you have installed everything using defaults it should be easy. Otherwise, make sure that your directory structure is the same or adjust the paths according to your current XAMPP directory setup.

    Regards,
    John

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