John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I'm trying to use mod_perl on Debian Etch.  I was looking at "practical 
mod_perl" book, but it appears that much has changed in mod_perl 2.0 so the second 
example doesn't work at all.

The first example, which is just two print statements to give a minimal header 
and content text, is invoked so I know the code is installed and the Apache 
configuration files are set up.

But the code from the Synopses of the Apache2::Request module documentation 
causes a segfault on the second line.  The 'use' is OK, but the 'new' shows in 
the apache logs that there was a segfault.

How do I begin to find out what the real error is?  Is there something more 
that needs to be done with Debian installing from the apt?  Could someone post 
a trivial example that ought to work?

--John

It looks like the examples from practical mod_perl are from before the API was changed to use Apache2:: instead of Apache::. So for all those examples you'd need to s/Apache::/Apache2::/g. If you could provide a link to the specific example you're having trouble with that might help. The whole book is online at http://modperlbook.org/ if you weren't already aware.

For the Apache2::Request problem you're running:

    use Apache2::Request;
    $req = Apache2::Request->new($r);
    @foo = $req->param("foo");
    $bar = $req->args("bar");

and getting a segfault on new?

Are you running this as a handler, or through one of the CGI emulation layers (ModPerl::PerlRun, or ModPerl::Registry for example). you do also have

my $r = shift;

somewhere above that (and ideally use strict; as well) right?

I personally normally install mp and libapreq from source, so i'm not familiar with how one would install/configure them using debian.

Adam

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