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. perl 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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