Good morning all,
I recently began to host a website with the hosting company addr.com.
On the good side, they run Apache / mod_perl and they only cost $10 /
month. On the bad side, they don't _support_ mod_perl, and they don't
allow access to the error_logs. The upshot is that I have been unable
to get even the simplest mod_perl handler to work on my site. So I'm
hoping that some of you could point out what I am doing wrong, or what
addr is doing wrong. Here's what I've done.
1. I have confirmed that the server has mod_perl installed:
The Environment variable SERVER_SOFTWARE takes the values: Apache/1.3.14
Ben-SSL/1.42 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_01 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10
FrontPage/4.0.4.3 ApacheJServ/1.1.2
2. I have confirmed that I can execute some Apache directives from an
.htaccess file in the appropriate directory (so AllowOverride is not set
to None):
Deny from all (AllowOverride Limit)
ErrorDocument (AllowOverride Indexes)
3. I wrote a simple handler, Hello.pm (based on Hello.pm in the Eagle
book), and I tested this from a .htaccess file on my mod_perl
enabled server at home. It works as expected (i.e. I request
http://montreal/hello/world.htm, and
<HTML><BODY>Hello World</BODY></HTML> is rendered in my browser.)
package OCF::Hello;
use strict;
use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
sub handler {
my ( $r ) = shift;
$r->content_type( 'text/html' );
$r->send_http_header;
$r->print( "<HTML><BODY>Hello World</BODY></HTML>");
return OK;
}
4. I set the Apache directives in hello/.htaccess to be the same as
those on my home machine:
<FilesMatch "world.htm">
PerlRequire /usr48/home/cbrooks/public_html/OCF/Hello.pm
PerlHandler OCF::Hello
</FilesMatch>
Can anyone point me either to alternative directives to try,
configuration questions for their support team, or bugs in my code?
Thanks for your help.
-Chris
