I am experiencing a rather annoying problem with our mod_perl based application. We are in a heavy development period, and it seems Apache::Reload isn't always reloading our modules. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, apparently dependent on which httpd process handles your request. We are using the standard implicit method of defining Reload modules. All httpd.conf perl options as follows: 
PerlOptions +Parent
PerlSwitches -I /prog/v060111/web/perllib
PerlRequire /prog/v060111/web/perllib/startup.pl
PerlInitHandler Apache::Reload
PerlSetVar ReloadAll Off

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We then load mod_perl and Apache::Reload with Module::Load::Conditional's can_load() call (for single code-base mod_perl/mod_perl2 support): 
use Module::Load::Conditional qw(can_load check_install requires);
if (can_load(modules=> {'mod_perl'=>undef})) {
   # other mod_perl loads omitted for brevity
   can_load(modules=> {'Apache::Reload'=>undef}));
}

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Any ideas as to why this works sporadically? Is Module::Load::Conditional actually doing enough work to simulate a 'use Apache::Reload'?

In reply to Odd Apache::Reload failure by Phoenix Rising

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