Newbie: make test failure!

[Greg Leidreiter <ge...@ozemail.com.au>]

Config:
mod_perl-1.24
perl v5.6.0
apache 1.3.12
RedHat linux 6.1, kernel 2.2.12

Using:

	[/usr/local/apahce/build/mod_perl-1.24]# perl Makefile.PL \
	EVERYTHING=1 \
	APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache

everything seems to look ok (to me) for both this and 'make'
but when I run 'make test'

I get:

	...
	httpd listening on port 8529
	will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log
	letting apache warm up...\c
	done
	/usr/bin/perl t/TEST 0
	still waiting for server to warm up.................not ok
	server failed to start! (please examine t/logs/error_log) at t/TEST line
95.
	make: *** [run_tests] Error 9

which isn't so good I figure. t/logs/error_log says this:

	[Sat July 8 13:34:16 2000] [crit] (98)Addresses already in use: make_sock:
could not 	bind to port 8529

Although the very first time I ran this it fell over with a different error
(which I rather stupidly failed to note and subsequently hosed the log -
it's great being new at this...)

I can also reproduce this behaviour (perhaps not surprisingly) by running
'make start_http' followed by 't/TEST -v modules'

Any insight appreciated!

Cheers,
Greg.

Newbie: make test failure FIXED!

[Greg Leidreiter <ge...@ozemail.com.au>]

From: G.W. Haywood [mailto:ged@jubileegroup.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2000 3:45 AM
To: mod_perl Mailing List
Subject: Re: Newbie: make test failure!


Hi there,

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Michael Robinton wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg Leidreiter wrote:
> > but when I run 'make test'
> > 	httpd listening on port 8529
> > 	letting apache warm up...\c
> > 	still waiting for server to warm up.................not ok

> I always get that error. I always ignore the error and everything
> seems to work fine.

Running `make test' successfully is IMPORTANT!  Please try to find the
reason that it doesn't work and let us know!  At the same time you'll
be doing a service to the mod_perl community and helping yourself
learn about mod_perl.  Try to understand everything in the test
configuration.  Is there already a process listening on port 8529?
Can you start Apache manually with the test configuration?  Do you
know where the logs are?  Anything in them?

73,
Ged.

---------------------------------
That seems like a fair call Ged.

I have messed around with the config of this so much now that it's difficult
to isolate the specific cause. However, here is a potted history in case
it's of use to anyone.

So make test failed, and as Michael suggested I ignored it and sure enough
Apache seemed to start and run OK (mod_perl.c came up under httpd -l) - did
all the things that a good web server should , EXCEPT that it returned 403
for every URL I entered into the browser.

I rebuilt Apache as a standalone server (ie: using vanilla defaults /
without Mod_perl) and suffered exactly the same problems (make test failure,
constant 403 returns), which seemed to let mod_perl off the hook as a
culprit at least. Moreover the latter problem suggested a fairly simple
config error on my part - but it took me a while to track it down :-)

Eventually, I noticed that the ServerRoot permissions were set to drwx------
which prevents user "nobody" from accessing this directory. Never crossed my
mind before that this was an issue - I simply thought that "nobody" was
interested in the DocumentRoot tree (and associated Symlinks). So reset
permissions on ServerRoot and hey presto! no more 403 errors!

Next I recompiled Apache from/with mod_perl and make test no longer fails!
So I assume these issues are related...

Cheers,
Greg.

Re: Newbie: make test failure!

["G.W. Haywood" <ge...@jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Michael Robinton wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg Leidreiter wrote:
> > but when I run 'make test'
> > 	httpd listening on port 8529
> > 	letting apache warm up...\c
> > 	still waiting for server to warm up.................not ok

> I always get that error. I always ignore the error and everything
> seems to work fine.

Running `make test' successfully is IMPORTANT!  Please try to find the
reason that it doesn't work and let us know!  At the same time you'll
be doing a service to the mod_perl community and helping yourself
learn about mod_perl.  Try to understand everything in the test
configuration.  Is there already a process listening on port 8529?
Can you start Apache manually with the test configuration?  Do you
know where the logs are?  Anything in them?

73,
Ged.

Re: Newbie: make test failure!

[Michael Robinton <mi...@bizsystems.com>]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg Leidreiter wrote:

> Config:
> mod_perl-1.24
> perl v5.6.0
> apache 1.3.12
> RedHat linux 6.1, kernel 2.2.12
> 
> Using:
> 
> 	[/usr/local/apahce/build/mod_perl-1.24]# perl Makefile.PL \
> 	EVERYTHING=1 \
> 	APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache
> 
> everything seems to look ok (to me) for both this and 'make'
> but when I run 'make test'
> 
> I get:
> 
> 	...
> 	httpd listening on port 8529
> 	will write error_log to: t/logs/error_log
> 	letting apache warm up...\c
> 	done
> 	/usr/bin/perl t/TEST 0
> 	still waiting for server to warm up.................not ok
> 	server failed to start! (please examine t/logs/error_log) at t/TEST line
> 95.
> 	make: *** [run_tests] Error 9
> 
I always get that error. I always ignore the error and everything seems 
to work fine. Did the same thing with the older perl and older versions 
of apache and mod-perl.

Such is life :-)