Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new"

vek has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed monks. I'm sure there is something extremely simple I'm missing here. I've had Apache::MP3 running on my desktop Linux box for ages. A co-worker recently expressed an interest and wanted me to install it on his Linux box. So, I downloaded the Apache/mod_perl source. Seemed to install fine, checked the SERVER_SOFTWARE ENV variable (via the vanilla printenv cgi script) after kicking off httpd:

SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26"
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Then I installed Apache::MP3. Added the appropriate info to httpd.conf:

<Location /moozik>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::MP3
</Location>
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Restarted httpd for grins and proceeded to the .../moozik URL. Was promptly greeted with a nice 500 error. So off to the logs I went, and I found this little snippet of handy info:

[Tue Feb 26 16:02:54 2002] [error] Can't locate object method "new" vi
+a package "Apache" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Apache/MP3.pm li
+n 64.
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What am I missing here? I'm sure I'll be kicking myself but I've tried re-installing everything from scratch and still no joy...

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Re: Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new" by LD2 (Curate) on Feb 27, 2002 at 06:06 UTC
I may be incorrect here, but looking at the docs for Apache::MP3 - you need to use `$response_code = handler($request)` to create a new Apache::MP3 object. Straight from the documentation - `$response_code = handler($request) This is a the standard mod_perl handler() subroutine. It creates a new + Apache::MP3 object, and then invokes its run() method.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new" by vek (Prior) on Feb 27, 2002 at 13:22 UTC
Yeh but that API doc is there in case you want to override Apache::MP3 methods isn't it? In fact the beauty of Apache::MP3 is that (previously in any case) you could use it 'right out of the box' which is why I think I'm missing something extremely simple here.	[reply]
Re: Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new" by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 27, 2002 at 15:41 UTC
You may have missed a step in the mod_perl install (did you do a 'make install' for both apache and mod_perl?), or you may have multiple apache servers on your system and this is the wrong one. You might also have compiled perl with a different compiler from the one you used for mod_perl. Finally, I suggest using a statically linked mod_perl because it seems to avoid a lot of possible traps.	[reply]
Re: Re: Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new" by vek (Prior) on Feb 27, 2002 at 16:37 UTC
perrin++ thanks. Looks like perl was compiled with a different compiler perhaps. I re-installed perl and then proceeded with the same install of Apache/mod_perl/Apache::MP3 (same install procedure as yesterday). Works like a charm now. Thanks again.	[reply]
(jeffa) Re: Apache::MP3 Can't locate object method "new" by jeffa (Bishop) on Feb 27, 2002 at 15:42 UTC
Is it possible that perhaps you have two versions of Perl on your system? If you installed Apache::MP3, then perhaps you installed it to a different distro than the one you used to compile mod_perl. Here is the http.conf directive that i use: `Alias /mp3 /mnt/lump/mp3/ <Location /mp3> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::MP3::Sorted PerlSetVar CacheDir /usr/tmp/mp3_cache PerlSetVar Fields title,filename,duration PerlSetVar PathStyle Arrows Order allow,deny Allow from all </Location>` [download] Good luck, and keep at it ... oh yeah, check out Apache Toolbox, it really makes installing mod_perl a breeze ;) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]