At 9:20 PM -0700 8/16/01, Nick Tonkin wrote: >On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:38:56 -0700 Ged Haywood wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: >> >> > > Somehow they are not getting setup right. >> > >> > Yeah, no kidding, Joe. >> > > > He's only trying to help. :) > >[snip] >So what I mean to say is, firstly, that I think that it's unfortunate that >the level of complexity of getting mod_perl going is so high, and >maybe some more work could be directed in the ease-of-use area. I realize, >of course that it takes at least two to tango, and to be fair there are >many other components of a comprehensive web application platform that >also have work together with each other and mod_perl. I'm sure in my >current case it's something to do with how FreeBSD installed Perl, or some >such. But that's my whole point. I don't think it should be a prerequisite >that you be able to debug your whole system configuration in order to get >mod_perl working. It just creates a barrier, one which I've always been >determined to overcome, but which I am sure has turned many other >would-be mod_perlers away. Actually, I had an idea about this... I have no idea how mod_perl and apache 2.0 are going to work. That said, my suggestion is to make modules work a little more like an rc.d script. Basically, you download apache and untar it. Then you download mod_perl or mod_php or mod_ssl or mod_* or all of the above. For each module you run tar -zxvf mod_whatever.tar.gz cd mod_whatever ./configure make link The make link command creates a "linking" file in the apache source directory automatically. The "linking" file would basically be a makefile explaining how to copy the headers and libraries to the apache tree for compilation. This way, you wouldn't have to tell apache about everything you wanted to add. Instead, apache config would just iterate through the directory with all the "linking" files and know from those files what to include. I think this is very similar to the way its currently done, except it's much more automated and easier for the user (IMHO). I know I've had problems trying to get mod_php, mod_perl, and mod_ssl to compile together. Robert Landrum -- "A good magician never reveals his secret; the unbelievable trick becomes simple and obvious once it is explained. So too with UNIX."
