I had some trouble getting it working with Apache2 and mod_perl2. After fooling around with it I switched to Apache 1.3.x with mod_perl1. Took some tweaking but I was able to get it working fine. I don't believe AddModule works correctly with Apache2. I'm pretty sure LoadModule is the correct way to load modules. Here is how I tested my environment btw. 
  print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
  print "Server's environment\n";
  foreach ( keys %ENV ) {
      print "$_\t$ENV{$_}\n";
  }

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Basically this prints out your environment within Apache. You should see mod_perl as your gateway I believe. Also a setting somewhere for which version of mod_perl you are running. The program should just work without the #! at the top. If it doesn't then try adding it. This means you are not loading mod_perl. It runs fine as is if mod_perl is loaded.

Some place to start at least.

After thinking about it, here is an example of what the above produced (edited of course): 

Server's environment
PERL_SEND_HEADER	On
SERVER_NAME	test
SERVER_SOFTWARE	Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI-Perl/1.1
MOD_PERL	mod_perl/1.29


Hope this helps

In reply to Re: mod_perl.so installed, not running? by u235sentinel
in thread mod_perl.so installed, not running? by Anonymous Monk

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