William R Ward wrote: > > The Apache server processes its config file twice when starting up, > and our code doesn't react well to that. On the first pass, > everything initializes hunky-dorily (if that's a word), but on the > second pass lots of stuff that is assumed to be loaded in memory > doesn't work. > > This has been working just fine under our old setup, using Apache > httpd version 1.3.14, mod_perl 1.24_01, and Perl 5.00503. But we're > trying to upgrade to 1.3.22, 1.26, and 5.6.2 respectively, and now > we have lots of problems.
hrm. the problem might not be the double-loading of httpd.conf then - that's been around since, well, before most of us (I tracked that down to apache 0.9 once through list archives) more likely is this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=100510779912574&w=2 and the other reports in the archives that describe the same thing. > > What I think I need to do is add some logic to test which pass we are > currently running, and act according to that. Or are there any known > bugs in Apache, mod_perl, or Perl that might be causing the trouble? there is $Apache::Server::Starting, which is true only when the server is starting, which may be helpful to you. you may also want to consider putting your code in a PerlRestartHandler, which runs on restarts. since the second reading of httpd.conf is technically a restart for mod_perl, a PerlRestartHandler runs when you issue apachectl start or apachectl restart. HTH --Geoff
