Hi Fellow Monks,

I am upgrading my previous Apache 1.3.27 to 2.0 (latest) for a perl application, both SSL enabled and on Win32. I have just setup Apache 2.0 with Mod_perl2. The problem is coming when I am trying to port application code. The following error is encountered during the execution of startup.pl:

" $parms->add_config() has failed: Global $r object is not available. Set:\n\tPerlOptions +GlobalRequest\nin httpd.conf"

Some old posts on the web suggested this to be a cgi.pm problem and so I installed the latest version of CGI but the problem persists.

I also have Apache2::Compat so I guess backward compatibility should not be an issue.

I have updated and reinstalled the Apache2::Request module.

I also explicitly put the "PerlOptions +GlobalRequest" statement in the httpd.conf file but the error is still there.

I am stuck here..any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

In reply to mod_perl2/Apache2 problem: "Global $r object unavailable..." by Truman

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