Hi,

I'm trying to debug some Perl code in a mod_perl environment. I'll try to get to the root of my issue:

When I start apache I can see the values of $ENV{MOD_PERL} and $ENV{MOD_PERL_API_VERSION}. I see this by doing something (e.g. go to a URL) and print to my error log the values of MOD_PERL and and MOD_PERL_API_VERSION. When I go back to the URL and get the same Apache PID those two ENV variables are gone (I still see everything else in %ENV). I am searching through my sea of code and CPAN modules and I am having trouble determining what is removing the environment variables. Has anyone experienced something like this before?

Regarding why this matters, certain CPAN modules such as XMLRPC::Transport::HTTP look for the MOD_PERL_API_VERSION.

If you could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

In reply to MOD_PERL ENV variable unsetting? by paulthewalrus

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