On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Robert Kehl wrote: > Hi all! > > Thanks for your thoughts, Randy. > > > Are there any helpful messages in the error log > > indicating what's failing? > > No, none. > > > Perhaps the first thing to check - does > > > > LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl56.dll" > > LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so > > > > alone, without any further mod_perl directives, prevent the > > server from starting? > > That works ok, for Perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.0. Surely I can't execute > any perl then.
This was just to test that the mod_perl.so module was OK, which apparently it is. > The browser starts to load a page, but does not > finish. After several minutes(!) it says 404. Is this even for a static page? You mentioned earlier that without mod_perl, CGI scripts execute OK, but are slow ... This might be a more general problem that should be looked at first .... > > > If so, then it might be that you're running > > into the fact that mod_perl 2.0 on Win32 has problems with > > perl-5.6.1 (ActivePerl 6xx), and that the solution would be to > > migrate to perl-5.8.0 (ActivePerl 8xx). > > As long as I don't have a DBD-Mysql afterwards, that's not > possible other than for testing. But it's the same for 5.8.0 - > crashing, too. There's a DBD-mysql ppm package for ActivePerl 8xx available in our http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ repository. > > > However, if the server starts OK above, but things like > > PerlModule Apache2 > > cause it to crash, then it might be a misconfiguration, > > Ok, but where to configure? > > > or faulty installation, or something similar. If this > > is the case, the error log should give a clue about > > what's failing. > > Nope, it doesn't, stays absolutely clear. The only thing > happens is a small dialogue box popping up saying "The > requested operation has failed." Same happens if I comment > "PerlModule Apache2" and uncomment "PerlRequire", if if the > file to be required consists only of comments! Does Apache2.pm exist on your system (under, eg, C:\Perl\site\lib)? And does the file you use for PerlRequire have a '1;' as the last line (ie, return a true value)? If both of these are OK, then the fact that even these fail indicate something seriously wrong - these are really basic things. If the above doesn't help, I'd suggest, first of all, making sure Apache 2 works OK without mod_perl, including perl cgi scripts (simple pages and scripts should be served very fast). When you're satisfied with that, using Perl 5.8 if possible, remove existing mod_perl packages (1.0 and 2.0), and then reinstall mod_perl 2.0, making sure that mod_perl.so gets installed into your Apache2 modules/ directory. Then try loading mod_perl, and assuming that works, start adding simple things like you were doing - loading Apache2, and requiring a simple startup file. -- best regards, randy
