On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:43 -0400, David Weintraub wrote:
> I am attempting to install mod_perl on a SUSE Linux 2.6.6-7 dual
> processor machine. It already has Apache 2.0.49 and Perl 5.8.3
> installed. In fact, it already had perl_mod 1.x installed, but I decided
> to install perl_mod 2.0.3.
>
The included perl with SLES is threaded, you probably want to build your
own perl. As for Apache 2, my advice is to also build it from source
yourself.
> I copied mod_perl.so to /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_perl.so and made a
> symbolic link to /usr/lib64/apache2-prefork/mod_perl.so. I modified
> /etc/sysconfig/apache2 so that APACHE_MODULES includes "perl".
>
SLES does not include/have the Apache2 source, so how did you build
mod_perl.so?
> I was able to successfully install Mason 1.36 and mod_perl 2.0.3, I
> tried to go through the documentation, and found out about the renaming.
> However, when I restarted Apache, I got the error that
> /etc/apache2/mod_perl-startup.pl failed.
>
> I eliminated the "use Apache2 ();" statement and changed all instances
> of "Apache" to "Apache2" (which I believe I was suppose to do). I then
> had problems with the ENV statement, changed it to look for
> $ENV(MOD_PERL), and tried Apache again, but failed because
> $ENV{MOD_PERL} is not defined.
>
> Here's the /etc/apache2/mod_perl-startup.pl I am using:
>
>
> $ENV{MOD_PERL} =~ /^CGI-Perl/ or die "MOD_PERL not used!";
>
> #use Apache2 ();
>
> use lib qw(/srv/www/perl-lib);
>
> # enable if the mod_perl 1.0 compatibility is needed
> # use Apache::compat ();
>
> use ModPerl::Util (); #for CORE::GLOBAL::exit
>
> #use ModPerl::RequestRec ();
> #use ModPerl::RequestIO ();
> #use ModPerl::RequestUtil ();
> use Apache2::RequestRec ();
> use Apache2::RequestIO ();
> use Apache2::RequestUtil ();
>
> #use Apache2::Server ();
> use Apache2::ServerUtil ();
> use Apache2::Connection ();
> use Apache2::Log ();
>
> use APR::Table ();
>
> use ModPerl::Registry ();
>
> use Apache2::Const -compile => ':common';
> use APR::Const -compile => ':common';
>
> 1;
>
> Not even too sure what else I need to add. In fact, I am not even too
> sure how Apache starts up. There's two scripts /etc/init.d/apache and
> /etc/init.d/apache2, but there is nothing in /etc/init.d/rc.3 that calls
> either of those scripts.
>
> --
> David Weintraub
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards,
Rafael Caceres
