On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Tobias Dittrich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Apache Server with mutiple hosts (IP as well as name based) on
> a SuSe Linux 6.4 machine. Some of the hosts are running modperl scripts as
> well as perl scripts at the same time and they do share the same global
> variables (such as Database login/ password etc.) defined in a perl script
> that is "required" in ervery script. These hosts are almost identical as
> they are mostly the same webshop in different languages but do reside in
> different directories.
> Now I am experiencing some strange behavior: sometimes one of the hosts is
> using the variables of another host. For example the german site logs into
> the database as "the english site" and then displays its contents in english
> instead of german. After pressing the reload button the correct content is
> being displayed.
> So my question now is: is it possible that this error is caused by modperl
> because all of the scripts have the same scriptnames (even though they do
> come from different diretories) and that they are being mixed in memory? And
> how could I avoid this without having to rename all of the scripts? I did
> not find anything in the documentation/ FAQs of modperl/ Apache but maybe
> someone could point me to a doc about modperl/ Perl where this topic is
> being covered?
it is possible if your mod_perl is older than version 1.23, what version
are you using? it's an old bug that should be gone for good in 1.23, i
hope it hasn't crept up again.
