Re: [Mason] problem with RPM instalation of Apache and Mod_perl on RedHat and Mason

[Bruce Albrecht <br...@zuhause.org>]

Must you send multiple copies of this to both the modperl and mason
mailing lists?  I don't use Red Hat Linux, but my first suggestion is
to scrap it in favor of some other version of Linux, or maybe even
FreeBSD.  RedHat has a tendency to use development versions of Perl
and other software in their release (without identifying it as such),
and it's known to be buggy (in particular, Red Hat's version of perl
5.8.0 and mod_perl 2.0).  Mason was written with Apache 1.x and
mod_perl, and use with Apache 2.x/mod_perl 2.0 is not supported, and
probably won't be supported until mod_perl 2.0 is finally released.

parvez mohamed writes:
 > I have RedHat 9, I have installed Apache using rpm
 > wich comes with RedHat9 (httpd-2.0.40-21) then i
 > haveinstalled mod_perl using rpm mod_perl-1.99_07-5
 > then is have installed the latest Mason files
 > HTML-Mason-1.22) but when i try to start Apache it says
 > Apache/Constants.pm not found. I serched CAPAN for
 > Apache::Constents it points to mod_perl which i
 > have already installed. 
 > 
 > for your information i have added these lines to
 > httpd.conf:
 > PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
 > <FilesMatch "\.html$">
 > SetHandler perl-script
 > PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
 > </FilesMatch>
 > the error i get is:
 > Can't locate Apache/Constants.pm in @INC (@INC
 > contains
 > .....
 > .......
 >  /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 .) at
 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm
 > line 13.!BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm
 > line 13.!Compilation failed in require at (eval 1)
 > line 3.!
 > [Tue Sep 09 16:28:02 2003] [error] Can't load Perl
 > module HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler for server
 > 127.0.0.1:0, exiting...!
 > 
 > To over come this problem i put in these entries
 > :
 > I put in these lines in my httpd.conf file
 > PerlModule Apache2  
 > PerlModule Apache::compat 
 > PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
 >  <FilesMatch "\.mml$">
 >    SetHandler perl-script
 >   PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler