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Posted to modperl-cvs@perl.apache.org by fd...@hyperreal.org on 1999/04/27 22:14:07 UTC
cvs commit: modperl-site/faq mod_perl_faq.pod
fdc 99/04/27 13:14:07
Modified: faq mod_perl_faq.pod
Log:
Note that ActiveState still can't be used.
Fix a couple of formatting errors.
Revision Changes Path
1.5 +9 -8 modperl-site/faq/mod_perl_faq.pod
Index: mod_perl_faq.pod
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RCS file: /export/home/cvs/modperl-site/faq/mod_perl_faq.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- mod_perl_faq.pod 1999/02/09 20:41:26 1.4
+++ mod_perl_faq.pod 1999/04/27 20:14:07 1.5
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-Mod_perl_faq - frequently asked questions about mod_perl ($Date: 1999/02/09 20:41:26 $)
+Mod_perl_faq - frequently asked questions about mod_perl ($Date: 1999/04/27 20:14:07 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
Win32 users note: at the time of writing, ActiveState's Perl cannot be
used with mod_perl, because it is based on an old version of perl
-(perl-5.003_07, build 316).
+(perl-5.003_07, build 316). There have been no reports of success
+with mod_perl and newer versions of ActiveState (April 1999).
=item Apache
@@ -71,8 +72,8 @@
directory and then choose one of the INSTALL.simple* recipes that is
close to your requirements, as a starting point. When you succeed in
compiling and linking an httpd, a quick way to check that everything
-is configured according to plan is to run it with the -l (list
-compiled-in modules) and -V (show paths) flags.
+is configured according to plan is to run it with the C<-l> (list
+compiled-in modules) and C<-V> (show paths) flags.
=head2 What documentation should I read?
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@
You will have to start a new process that runs under a suitable user-id
(or group-id). If all requests handled by the script will need the higher
privileges, you might as well write it as a suid CGI script. Read the
-documentation about suEXEC in Apache-1.2.
+documentation about suEXEC in the Apache documentation.
Alternatively, pre-process the request with mod_perl and fork a suid
helper process to handle the privileged part of the task.
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@
<!--#perl sub="My::ssi" arg="one" arg="two" arg="three" -->
-=head2 Why is image-file loading so slow when testing with httpd -X ?
+=head2 Why is image-file loading so slow when testing with httpd C<-X> ?
If you use Netscape while your server is running in single-process
mode, the "KeepAlive" feature gets in the way. Netscape tries to open
@@ -387,8 +388,8 @@
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