Thank you for everyone's support....
My problem was that I was reading suggestions like "don't change your CGI
script as Apache::DBI persistance connection is fully transparent..."
too literally....
The pre-requsite to this mod_perl is to have your CGI scripts run under
a special mod_perl directory....yes, I read that in the Eagle book, but
in Chapter 2, and by the time I got to the meating things, had forgotton
this prereq....
Note to Author of Apache::DBI, could you please add a brief comment in
this regard to your "Configuration" section. Also, in your document,
you keep referring to eg/startup.pl. I don't think we get that with just
a binary (or RPM install)...
Anyways...overall I was at fault for not re-re-read documents....
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Medi Montaseri wrote:
>
> > These documents are very confusing....on one hand the document the other
> > caller mentioned does explicitly talk about two conditions should exists.
> > Note A AND B. And then we hear that that is not really true...And even
> > Apache::DBI.pm itslef does not talk about it and there is no way that I
> > know of that one can tell, if we do indeed have a persistant connection or
> > have simply required some dumb packages...
> >
> > We appreciate the technology such package authors bring to us...but please
> > regard the documentation part as important as other parts...
> > We are doing out best to keep the Perl and open source flag up, but we
> > can not read source code all day long, our Microsoftish developers are way
> > ahead of us with their fancy IDEs....
>
> As Andrew said, you just need to learn how to find your way around. I
> believe it's still easier than trying to get somebody on the support call
> to explain it to you. The cool thing is that once you know your way
> around, you don't need anybody else to help yourself. I admit that the
> initial overhead may be longer but it's only in the beginning.
>
> Back to your problem. What I've suggested is that may be you aren not
> running mod_perl at all [read: you run mod_cgi]! Try to put into your
> startup.pl:
>
> die "not running under mod_perl" unless $ENV{MOD_PERL};
>
> > On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Flavio D' Amore wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > im reading on mod_perl and Relational Databases
> > > > (http://apache.org/guide/databases.html), Introduction, that persistent
> > > > database connections needs to have set $ENV{MOD_PERL} in order to execute
> > > > CGI perl script
> > > > via mod_perl and not via normal CGI.
> > > >
> > > > What's the right value for that variable and where i've to set it
> > > > (httpd.conf or Unix environment?)?
> > >
> > > mod_perl does this for you. You shouldn't mess with it yourself.
> > >
> > > Hmm, may be you don't run under mod_perl even if you think you are?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _____________________________________________________________________
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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