I can think of several reasons why you could be experiencing a segmentation fault:

• You have use Apache in your script. That's designed for mod_perl modules; this looks more like a CGI. If you're trying to accelerate CGI with mod_perl, you need to use Apache::Registry instead. Also, if you are trying to implement a CGI, you need to use CGI and/or peek at the values in %ENV to get your input, not by accessing an Apache request object.
• Also, if it is intended to be a content-handling mod_perl module, it should have an explicit package declaration, and be named somewhere in the Apache config with a PerlHandler directive; if you don't specify otherwise, that PerlHandler directive will be looking for a subroutine in your package called handler to process the request.
• You have a use vars declaration in the script. Since you are invoking mod_perl, use vars is an open invitation to disaster -- those package globals you just declared are global to that Apache child process for the entirety of that child's lifetime.

Spud Zeppelin * spud@spudzeppelin.com

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