Hi,
I've spent quite a bit of time experimenting and reading, but I am unable
to make progress with configuring mod_perl on our server. Please bear with
me, as I am a mathemtaics teacher, not a system guru by any means.
I am reading Paul Dubois's MySQL and Perl for the Web and I am stuck on
page 74 where he gives configuration instructions for mod_perl.
Our installation is what came out of the can when we installed Red Hat 9.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# /usr/sbin/apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.40
Server built: Nov 27 2003 11:04:06
I followed Paul's advice and first tried:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# /usr/sbin/httpd -l
Compiled in modules:
core.c
prefork.c
http_core.c
mod_so.c
OK, I said that mod_perl must then be available only as a DSO. I found
mod_perl.so on our system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# locate mod_perl.so
/usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_perl.so
I wondered about the version so I did a:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# locate mod_perl
The last line of the output indicates our version of mod_perl.
/usr/share/doc/mod_perl-1.99_07/README
Now, I followed Paul's instructions, create a folder /var/www/cgi-perl with
proper permissions, then and added these lines to httpd.conf:
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
Alias /cgi-perl/ "/var/www/cgi-perl/"
<Location /cgi-perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
PerlSendHeader on
Options ExecCGI
</Location>
I restarted the server with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
[Wed Jun 09 13:41:20 2004] [warn] module perl_module is already loaded,
skipping
Note the warning I received. When I comment out LoadModule perl_module
modules/mod_perl.so
above, this warning disappears. However, in either case (with LoadModule
perl_module modules/mod_perl.so commented our uncommented), testing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] darnold]# HEAD / HTTP/1.0
200 OK
Content-Length: 904
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:29:37 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:41:53 GMT
404 Not Found
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:44:35 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:41:53 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
This means that mod_perl is not running. I was expecting some message about
mod_perl in the line: Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4.
So, my question. Can anyone help me with this problem? I would like to get
mod_perl going with our existing structure, if possible avoiding complete
installations of apache and mod_perl. Is there any simple thing I am
missing here?
Thanks.
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