Re: Comments on the document 'Installing mod_perl 2.0'

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Chris Carter wrote:
> 
>>> d) Another useful tip - that may seem a bit stupid, but which I found 
>>> useful - was to check after completing the installation process that 
>>> the 'modules' directory under '/usr/local/apache2' (or whatever) 
>>> contained the file 'mod_perl.so'. In my first few attempts at 
>>> installation this was useful to see if things had actually been 
>>> installed in the right place.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I'm following this one. Did you have a case that it 
>> wasn't installed there?
> 
> 
> Yes... I'm trying to recall the details but I think it was because I had 
> set the MP_AP_PREFIX= to the wrong location (...my earlier comment about 
> not understanding what it should be set to!). The install said completed 
> without coughing, and when I looked hopefully in the /modules/ directory 
> of the Apache installation tree the 'mod_perl.so' was absent. So I used 
> that method to check whether I was at least on the right track with the 
> installation.
> 
> I tried it a couple of times before I realised what I might be doing 
> wrong... =)

This is something that needs to be dealt in the code, not documentation. 
If you told it to install things somewhere and it has failed the installer 
should abort and report the error. If it doesn't than it's a bug.

But I think your problem is totally different. You whouls be using MP_APXS 
and not MP_AP_PREFIX. The latter is used only to build a static 
Apache/mod_perl.

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