I'm stuck with an old RedHat 5.2 box for a few months and am having troubles with mod_perl, not with the RedHat RPM version. I've loaded and built apache 1.3.12 with success But when mod_perl 1.24 is added starting apache (httpd) core dumps. Mod_perl was added this way: perl Makefile.PL \ APACHE_SRC=/usr/local/src/apache_1.3.12 \ DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 PREP_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1 make; make test fails this way ../apache_1.3.12/src/httpd -f `pwd`/t/conf/httpd.conf -X -d `pwd`/t & httpd listening on port 8529 will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log letting apache warm up...\c Syntax error on line 3 of /usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.24/t/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command '=pod', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration done /usr/bin/perl t/TEST 0 still waiting for server to warm up.........make: *** [run_tests] Interrupt The config file it is trying to use is in pod ? format ? if I skip make test, do the make install, re do my apache configure, adding --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a running httpd will coredump. Commenting out the added Load/Add things run fine again. Did I just skip something ? thanks, -pete