On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Tom Kane <t.k...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Now, I have another issue: I have created a startup.pl file and placed it > into the conf.d > directory. However, when I restart apache2 I get an error message to the > effect that the first > 'use' statement is a syntax error. I'm sure that my problem lies in my > confusion as to (1) where > to point ServerRoot, and (2) where I'm supposed to put my perl scripts. These > are all pretty > elementary, I suppose, but if anyone can shed any light, I will be very > appreciative.
You should have a line in your httpd.conf that looks something like this. If not, you will need to add it. PerlPostConfigRequire /etc/apache2/conf.d/startup.pl