Re: [QUESTION] mod_perl isnt having any effect...perhaps I've misconfigured?

[Evan Kaufman]

To check if mod_perl is loading at all, you could put some warns in your
module that you load with PerlModule, or PerlRequire a startup.pl that
logs something.

i think i found the problem, its something specific to the linux
distro i'm using (gentoo) thats preventing mod_perl from ever loading.
i've yet to find the solution, but since its distro-specific, i'll
ask on the gentoo forums.

thanks so much for the help!

[QUESTION] mod_perl isnt having any effect...perhaps I've misconfigured?

[Evan Kaufman]

I'm running a Gentoo Linux server using Apache 2.0.55-r1 with Perl
5.8.8, and just recently installed mod_perl 2.0.1-r2.  However,
mod_perl just doesnt seem to work.  I get no errors when apache starts
up, and theres nothing in apache's error log except some unrelated
404s.  It [mod_perl] just...isnt doing anything.

My (only) virtual host and mod_perl are configured as follows:

# default virtual host
NameVirtualHost *:80
IfDefine DEFAULT_VHOST
   VirtualHost *:80

   DocumentRoot /home/test/public_html

   Directory /home/test/public_html
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.pl index.cgi index.php
   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
   /Directory

   IfModule peruser.c
   ServerEnvironment apache apache
   MinSpareProcessors 4
   MaxProcessors 20
   /IfModule

   /VirtualHost
/IfDefine

# mod_perl configuration
IfDefine PERL
   IfModule !mod_perl.c
   LoadModule perl_modulemodules/mod_perl.so
   /IfModule
/IfDefine

IfModule mod_perl.c

   IfModule mod_access.c
   Location /perl-status
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlResponseHandler Apache2::Status
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from 127.0.0.1
   /Location
   /IfModule

   PerlModule ModPerl::Registry
   Directory /home/test/public_html/perl
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
   Options -Indexes ExecCGI
   PerlSendHeader On
   /Directory

   PerlModule Onomatopoeia
   Files *.phtml
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Onomatopoeia
 PerlSendHeader On
   /Files
/IfModule

Now, apache serves html and text documents, and even .cgi scripts
(which run through the normal mod_cgi).  However, when I run any .pl
scripts, for instance http://localhost/perl/test.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print Content-Type: text/html\n\n;
if($ENV{MOD_PERL}) { print using mod_perl!\n; }
else { print NOT using mod_perl!\n; }

I get a download file dialog, which means its not sending the
text/html content-type header, so its probably not being interpreted
(because I am using the PerlSendHeader directive, and the script is
chmodded to 755).

Additionally, whenever I try to access a .phtml file (which should be
parsed by a handler module, Onomatopoeia in this case), it's served up
as a static html document.
And, if I try http://localhost/perl-status, i get a 404.

Am I missing something obvious?  Perhaps I stumbled past something in
the docs?  I appreciate any help, sorry for the length message!

Re: [QUESTION] mod_perl isnt having any effect...perhaps I've misconfigured?

[Evan Kaufman]

You need to do more debugging to find out if your requests are going
through mod_perl or not.  For example, you could add a warn of
$ENV{MOD_PERL} in your test script and see what shows up in the log.

Nope, nothing in the error log.  Apache isnt executing the .pl file,
just serving it up as a raw binary file (its not even converting
newlines).


 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

If you take that out, does mod_perl work as expected?

No, that just prevents the .cgi files (currently vanilla cgi scripts)
from executing.

And I've restarted apache after every modification to the
configs...(thanks for responding though!)