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[whobutdrew]

Hi all! I've been tinkering with creating an LJ site of my own on and off for a bit, but as firefoxfey can tell you, with vanilla LJ, its been made of fail, because manually configuring Apache 1.3.x and I don't mix. So when she told me that DW was Apache2 friendly, I thusly said YAY! And have been excited about getting my hands dirty again.

I've run into my first problem. I saw this, which the same problem that I am running into. Contained within the comments is the link to this patch, which I have saved as foo.patch in my $LJHOME directory. When I try to run

patch -p0 < foo.patch

I get this:
( Codey code code )

Based on that, I try to give it $LJHOME/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm, which doesn't exist, so the script failed. I got the same thing when I sudo'd the command. I also tried to run

hg qimport foo.patch

From here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Patches#Applying_Patches

And I got 'parameter not recognized.'

I'm an IT tech by day, so you can drop some technobabble at me, but I am NOT by any means a programmer/developer! I took a class of Perl in college, but that's about it. This is also my first foray into building a server other than a fileserver.

So please. Tell me what probably simple thing I'm doing wrong so I can move on to squeeing about finally getting a webserver workening!