Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Thanks for the tip, but I looked at that article and it doesn't appear to offer a solution, just more questions. It says the problem is fixed in version 1.26, but I still see the problem even with that version. > > 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. I'll try these. Thanks. --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.