Most MiniVend configuration and setup problems are due to one of:
THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST COMMON PROBLEM.
To install a working demo, MiniVend needs to know what DocumentRoot is and how to run CGI programs. Details of this setup are server- and site-specific, and you may need to do some research.
Re-run the configuration again, and pay close attention to the prompts given. There are examples given which apply to most systems.
If your web server is Apache or
NCSA, Minivend will try and parse its
httpd.conf file to help you along, but many ISPs don't allow users to read these and
it may fail.
If you have a Perl earlier than 5.005, MiniVend will not work. Don't even try an earlier version; you must update.
Run perl -V. If you see
-DUSE_THREADS in the compilation definition, you might
run into problems with MiniVend.