E R wrote:
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Is this "normal", and what can I do so that the code in <Perl>
sections is only executed once in the parent process?
I believe it is "normal", in the sense that Apache actually parses its
configuration at least twice : one time "just for checking", then it
throws everything away and parses it a second time "for real".
Then it will even (probably) run your section again, each time it starts
a new child process.
You probably really want to read the following 2 pages :
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/custom.html