Hi Randy - Just wanted to send along some info that might be useful to add as a Windows installation note in the mod_perl guide. The short story is:
You may need to shut down and restart your machine after installing to get things to start working! I've been trying to install on Windows 2000 Professional, tried both the complete install (perl-win32-bin.exe) as well as installing Apache and ActiveState Perl and then using ppm to get to your mod_perl package. In both cases Apache by itself worked fine, but as soon as I added the LoadModule and AddModule lines for mod_perl, the server would refuse to start. The screen message was uninformative: The Apache service is starting. Failed to start the Apache service. Note the errors or messages above, and press the <ESC> key to exit. and nothing at all showed up in error_log. After much frustration, I remembered I was working on a Windows box, and rebooted :-). Maybe there can be a FAQ or something in the install section that mentions the failure to start and that particular empty error message. Thanks! Larry Leszczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
