RE: [mp2] 'Can't Load...' PerlRequire error for Apache2.2

[Simon Wray <Si...@Xchanging.com>]

Thanks for the response Randy.

I did indeed install via the PPM package you note (
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/install.html#PPM_Packages)

I have tried to execute this again in case it did end in error. However,
after asking for the initial Apache install location and then retrieving
the packages the DOS window simply closes. Which makes me think the
install has failed.

Does anyone know how I can clean-up this install and try again? Or
alternately where there is a log I can check to see why the mod_perl
install has aborted?

Thanks
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Kobes [mailto:randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca] 
Sent: 27 May 2006 04:24
To: Simon Wray
Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org
Subject: Re: [mp2] 'Can't Load...' PerlRequire error for Apache2.2

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Simon Wray wrote:

> Hi all... I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I have configuring
> mod_perl2.
>
> I'm completely new to Apache & Perl and am attempting to use them on
an
> office XP SP2 machine so I can load the ASP.Net module and try that
out.
> I'm mainly a VB, HTML & CSS person, so I'm in foreign territory with
all
> this server-side stuff! I'm trying to load the Perl module because I
> believe it's a requirement for the ASP.Net module.

Perhaps you're thinking of Apache::ASP:
    http://www.apache-asp.org/
for which Perl is indeeed required.

> I've been following the "Configuring mod_perl 2.0 for Win32"
> instructions at http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/config.html.
So
> far I have installed Apache2.2 and ActivePerl (latest) along with the
> Perl5.8 module.
>
> I have amended my conf file as follows:
>
> LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll"
> LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl-2.2.so
> PerlRequire "C:/Program Files/Apache Software
> Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/extra.pl"
>
> The problem I am getting is this error when I try to restart the
server:
>
> [Thu May 25 09:20:56 2006] [error] Can't load Perl file: C:/Program
> Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/extra.pl for server
> WS000665.ad.Xglobal.com:80, exiting...
>
> So the problem seems to be with the PerlRequire line in the conf file
-
> when I comment this out the server starts with no errors.

Assuming this is an installation via ppm:
  http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/install.html#PPM_Packages
were there any problems installing the perl modules?
It seems strange that the Apache module is called
mod_perl-2.2.so, as the installation script from the ppm
install is supposed to rename this to mod_perl.so.

-- 
best regards,
Randy Kobes

RE: [mp2] 'Can't Load...' PerlRequire error for Apache2.2

[Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Simon Wray wrote:

> Thanks for the response Randy.
>
> I did indeed install via the PPM package you note (
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/install.html#PPM_Packages)
>
> I have tried to execute this again in case it did end in error. However,
> after asking for the initial Apache install location and then retrieving
> the packages the DOS window simply closes. Which makes me think the
> install has failed.
>
> Does anyone know how I can clean-up this install and try again? Or
> alternately where there is a log I can check to see why the mod_perl
> install has aborted?

What you might try is removing mod_perl-2.2 from within
the ppm shell:
    C:\> ppm
    ppm> remove mod_perl-2.2
and then use the "mpinstall" script from
   http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/mpinstall
to install things - this script is a bit more verbose,
and also separates out the installation of the mod_perl
ppm package from the installation of the mod_perl.so
Apache module, making it easier to see if one or the
other failed.

-- 
best regards,
Randy Kobes