Re: Aborting Apache startup during PerlInitHandler

[Doug MacEachern <do...@covalent.net>]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have got a PerlInitHandler that does some config parsing etc.
> 
> I would like Apache to stop starting up and to print out some error
> message ("Config Directive blabla missing" or something like that) if
> an error occures during config parsing. (As it is happing when
> something is wrong with the Apache Config (httpd.cfg ...))
> 
> How can this be done?

PerlInitHandler?  that happens at request time, not startup time.
assuming you mean PerlRequire or PerlModule, just do something like so:

warn "config failed";
CORE::exit(1);