From: G.W. Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 3:45 AM
To: mod_perl Mailing List
Subject: Re: Newbie: make test failure!
Hi there,
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Michael Robinton wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg Leidreiter wrote:
> > but when I run 'make test'
> > httpd listening on port 8529
> > letting apache warm up...\c
> > still waiting for server to warm up.................not ok
> I always get that error. I always ignore the error and everything
> seems to work fine.
Running `make test' successfully is IMPORTANT! Please try to find the
reason that it doesn't work and let us know! At the same time you'll
be doing a service to the mod_perl community and helping yourself
learn about mod_perl. Try to understand everything in the test
configuration. Is there already a process listening on port 8529?
Can you start Apache manually with the test configuration? Do you
know where the logs are? Anything in them?
73,
Ged.
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That seems like a fair call Ged.
I have messed around with the config of this so much now that it's difficult
to isolate the specific cause. However, here is a potted history in case
it's of use to anyone.
So make test failed, and as Michael suggested I ignored it and sure enough
Apache seemed to start and run OK (mod_perl.c came up under httpd -l) - did
all the things that a good web server should , EXCEPT that it returned 403
for every URL I entered into the browser.
I rebuilt Apache as a standalone server (ie: using vanilla defaults /
without Mod_perl) and suffered exactly the same problems (make test failure,
constant 403 returns), which seemed to let mod_perl off the hook as a
culprit at least. Moreover the latter problem suggested a fairly simple
config error on my part - but it took me a while to track it down :-)
Eventually, I noticed that the ServerRoot permissions were set to drwx------
which prevents user "nobody" from accessing this directory. Never crossed my
mind before that this was an issue - I simply thought that "nobody" was
interested in the DocumentRoot tree (and associated Symlinks). So reset
permissions on ServerRoot and hey presto! no more 403 errors!
Next I recompiled Apache from/with mod_perl and make test no longer fails!
So I assume these issues are related...
Cheers,
Greg.
