Compiling mod_perl 2 on OS X Lion (blog post)

2012-04-03 Thread Fred Moyer
Might be useful for building mod_perl on your Lion based machine. http://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2012/04/compiling-mod-perl-2-on-os-x-lion.html

Apache::Session::DB_File cleanup issue

2012-04-03 Thread James B. Muir
Hi All, I'm using Apache::Session::DB_File to manage some sessions via a mod_perl2 handler and Apache2. I'm running into difficulties trying to read stored data in the sessions db while writing a cleanup cron job to remove old sessions. The following code snippet illustrates the problem: use

[mp2] Test fails with undefined symbols on AIX [mod_perl 2.0.5/apache-2.2.22/perl-5.14.2]

2012-04-03 Thread Peter Heimann
1. Problem Description: On AIX 5.3, with both mod_perl 2.0.5 and 2.0.6-rc2, perl -e 'use Apache2::Request;' fails because the loader cannot find runtime definitions for several symbols: Symbol modperl_hash_tied_object was referenced from module

Re: Apache::Session::DB_File cleanup issue

2012-04-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Hi James, There are a couple of issues here. One is that Apache::Session::DB_File doesn't use MLDBM, so you can't use that to read it. It uses DB_File. The other is that Data::Dumper may not do what you hope when you hand it a tied variable, i.e. not a real hash. I'm not certain about that one

highscalability.com report

2012-04-03 Thread Jim Schueler
Hope this doesn't get trapped by too many spam filters. Sad news. Just saw a blog http://www.highscalability.com/ that reports YouPorn.com switched from Perl to PHP. Apparently there's a reported 10% improvement in speed, but I haven't noticed :). After a couple months of total