Re: Culture shock

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Thanx,

On 18 Apr 2005 at 9:42, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> 
> LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

I tried the IfModule from below as the LoadModule returned the error 
that it was already loaded. Strange as there is not mention of 
PerlModule in the conf file.


> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/devel/core/apache_integration.html#Enabling_the_mod_perl_Module_and_Installing_its_Callbacks
> 
> That said, RedHat (and other distributions for that matter) seem to 
> always be behind in the versions of mod_perl that they ship. Since 
> mod_perl is being constantly developed, you'd be better off getting the 
> latest release from 
> http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz and building it 
> yourself.

That would be ideal but its doesn't look easy. My first attempt gave 
me the error: 
"Cannot install mod_perl/1.999.22 on top of mod_perl/1.99_16 due to a 
major API change between mod_perl 1.999_21 and 1.999_22. Please nuke 
the prior mod_perl installation from your site_lib..."

So I did, built mod_perl-2 RC5, and restarted httpd and got:
"seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process"

No more Apache!! I think require a new mail to the list!

> > 2) Given the above, and the fact I have Apache::Const, 
> > Apache::RequestRec..etc instead of Apache::Request and family 
> > installed, am I now using mod_perl 2?
> > 
> > 3) configtest used to throw up perl errors but will now happily 
> > report syntax ok even when i put some glaring typos in my scripts - 
> > is that normal? Or is there something missing in my httpd.conf that I 
> > need to add to get the scripts checked at apache restarts.

> In order for Apache to test/load your Perl code on startup, you need to 
> have startup file that loads all your (or other - e.g. CGI) modules, 
> which you then tell Apache to execute when it starts up:
> 
> PerlRequire  /usr/local/apache2/conf/startup.pl
 
> Check out:
> 
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html#Startup_File

This worked.

> > At a guess I would say I am using mod_perl 2 and I need to put 
> > something into the httpd to get 1 and 3 to work correctly but I don't 
> > 
> > know what. Can anyone advice me?
> > 
> > Thanx.
> > Dp.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Arshavir Grigorian
> Systems Administrator/Engineer
> M-CAM, Inc.
> 


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