t/conf/extra.conf.in t/conf/test.conf.in t/conf/ssl/test.conf.in
conf/startup.pl needs to be t/conf/modperl_extra.pl and it'll be automatically loaded.
once you moved those things you need again to adjust those files to use @ServerRoot@ and other tokens. If you don't put those files into t/conf A-T doesn't know about them and obivously your hostport thing doesn't work.
Take a look at the httpd-test cvs repository. Dive into perl-framework sub-dir and look around. This framework used for testing apache, has both, ssl and non-ssl configs in it. They all located under t/conf.
Once you do all that and before you upload a new package, you should be able to untar it in a new place (e.g. /tmp) and run your tests. If some tests fail it's OK, but the test suite should run. And it doesn't at the moment.
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