Hi Perrin,
When I get rid of the LoadModule line I can't load
Apache - it complains of <Perl>. Also the hello.pl
does work w/ plain CGI-Perl I tried that right away.
It just doesn't work w/ mod_perl. I am stumped and am
probably going to give up shortly - thank anyways.
John Kolvereid
--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry you're having so much trouble with the
> install. It goes pretty
> smoothly for most people, but you are complicating
> things a bit by
> putting PHP and SSL in the mix on your first try.
>
> > Perrin, I have no idea if DSO is still involved
>
> Apache will not build DSO unless you tell it to.
>
> Your build routine looks fine to me. I do the same
> except I don't
> usually build in mod_ssl, and it works.
>
> > After I install the apache server I check the
> > httpd.conf. In it are 2 key lines:
> >
> > LoadModule perl_module libexec/libperl.so
> > AddModule mod_perl.c
>
> Get rid of your old conf file. You don't want any
> of that
> LoadModule/AddModule junk at all in a static server.
> That's DSO-only.
> (Anyone know if mod_ssl somehow forces you to use
> DSO?)
>
> > However, when I try to browse my hello.pl
> > file (from Apache Modules w/ Perl & C, pp 42-4) it
> > displays it as text rather than an html page.
> It's as
> > if the Options ExecCGI were not applied.
>
> That script should work under CGI as well. Does it?
> Did you remember
> to make it executable?
>
> I'm afraid I'm not that much help with install
> problems because I just
> haven't had any of my own to deal with. You can try
> using Apache
> Toolbox to do the build. It's supposed to make this
> stuff easier. If
> it seems hopeless, you could always check out
> SpeedyCGI, which gives a
> similar speedup for perl CGI scripts bu does not
> require apache to be
> recompiled. It doesn't give you access to the full
> range of mod_perl
> tools, but it may be all you need in this case.
>
> - Perrin
>
>
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