Problems running modperl under apache

[Mark Vazquez <ma...@surpluzz.com>]

Recently i transfered over my company's existing websiste from winnt 4
server with iis 4 to redhat 7.0 with apache 1.3.12/mod_perl 1.24.  The
majority of the site is done in perl and there are perl scripts in almost
every directory. But apache cant seem to run them, my main site page is a
perl file (index.pl) and it just gives me an "ok" error saying that there
could be misconfiguration error.  Besides having to go into the perl scrips
themselves and editing them,  is there anything that im missing?Btw... the
perl scripts make references to sub routines located in a .lib file that
placed in to my /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl diretory, but mod_perl still
gives me errors saying that the subroutines are undefined. I have mod_perl
configured this way:

<ifModule mod_perl.c>
<Directory /var/www>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::Registry
   PerlSendHeader On
   Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

Alias /cgi-bin "/var/www/cgi-bin"
<Location /cgi-bin>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::Registry
   PerlSendHeader On
   Options +ExecCGI
</Location>

<Files *.pl>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::Registry
###   PerlSendHeader On  <--this doesnt work under the Files directive i
guess
   Options +ExecCGI
</Files>

Re: Problems running modperl under apache

[Remco Schaar <re...@ch.twi.tudelft.nl>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Mark Vazquez wrote:

Hi,

> Recently i transfered over my company's existing websiste from winnt 4
> server with iis 4 to redhat 7.0 with apache 1.3.12/mod_perl 1.24.  The
> majority of the site is done in perl and there are perl scripts in almost
> every directory. But apache cant seem to run them, my main site page is a
> perl file (index.pl) and it just gives me an "ok" error saying that there
> could be misconfiguration error.  Besides having to go into the perl scrips
> themselves and editing them,  is there anything that im missing?Btw... the
> perl scripts make references to sub routines located in a .lib file that
> placed in to my /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl diretory, but mod_perl still
> gives me errors saying that the subroutines are undefined. I have mod_perl
> configured this way:
> 
> <ifModule mod_perl.c>
> <Directory /var/www>
>    SetHandler perl-script

This will set mod_perl to handle all requests within the dir... AFAIK
this disables your DirectoryIndex directive. You probably want the
	AddHandler perl-script .pl
to handle all .pl files instead, with a DirectoryIndex index.pl in front.

See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler

>    PerlHandler Apache::Registry
>    PerlSendHeader On
>    Options +ExecCGI
> </Directory>
> 
> Alias /cgi-bin "/var/www/cgi-bin"
> <Location /cgi-bin>
>    SetHandler perl-script

idem dito

>    PerlHandler Apache::Registry
>    PerlSendHeader On
>    Options +ExecCGI
> </Location>
> 
> <Files *.pl>
>    SetHandler perl-script

and one more :-)

>    PerlHandler Apache::Registry
> ###   PerlSendHeader On  <--this doesnt work under the Files directive i
> guess

I thought this would just work...

>    Options +ExecCGI
> </Files>
> 

Hope this helps,
Remco