Re: [PLUG] RH9 (mod_perl) woes

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 08:27, zeek wrote:
> I've been doing some extensive testing of RH9 and have found nearly all areas
> (relevant to me at least) to be greatly improved. However, at the same time I
> decided to plunge into the world of mod_perl and immediately discovered some
> problems.  I've seen some mention of this issue on the mod_perl list but a
> definitive solution is missing. Any comments here would be greatly appreciated.
> Here's the scenario:
> 
> httpd.conf:
> 
> LoadModule perl_module modules/libperl.so
> PerlModule Apache2
> 
> <Perl>
>  use lib '/var/www/cgi-bin/MovableType/lib';
>  use lib '/var/www/cgi-bin/MovableType/extlib';
> </Perl>
> 
> results in
> 
> Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 44 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf:
> <Perl> directive missing closing '>'
> 
> 
> In the mod_perl archives, there was mention of using a whitespace with the
> initial Perl directive <Perl > (<Perl[space]>)
> but this only results in another error (which I didn't want to pursue since this
> was already a funky workaround).
> 
> Another solution involves using:
> 
> PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /var/www/cgi-bin/MovableType/lib
> 
> but this results in:
> 

I've always used a 
PerlRequire /path/to/startup.pl

inside startup.pl I preload any needed modules as well as any use
lib/etc lines. HTH


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