I'm also having a problem with mod_perl, but its a slightly different nature. I have a production server that is running apache with mod_perl, and I have my own local machine where I do most of my development, which does not have apache on it at all.

I'd like to be able to perl -c some of my code that is using Apache::DBI to make sure it compiles before moving it over to the production server, but I can't because I can not get Apache::DBI to install on my local machine. It appears that Apache::DBI looks for a running http server on the localhost while it is installing and crashes out if it does not find it :(

Can anybody offer a solution to this?