I suggest you post your segfaulting mod_perl program so that we can see if you're doing anything obviously wrong.

Segfaults with mod_perl are quite rare, in my experience. It's quite possible that you have some bad/mismatched packages. Fortunately, compiling your own apache/mod_perl/libapreq is pretty easy. Below are the steps I use for compiling - adjust as required:


Install prerequisites:  
      autoconf automake bison flex gcc gcc-c++ make 
      db db-devel db-utils zlib zlib-devel 
      openssl openssl-devel ncftp lynx neon neon-devel 
      libevent giflib giflib-devel libjpeg libjpeg-devel libpng 
      libpng-devel libtiff libtiff-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel 
      gzip bzip2 zlib zlib-devel

Install CPAN modules:
      ExtUtils::XSBuilder  Parse::RecDescent
          
======================================================
Get the source files
========================================================
export MPM="prefork"
export SUFFIX="_${MPM}_perl_php"

export CFLAGS="WHATEVER CFLAGS YOUR PROCESSOR SUPPORTS"

cd ~
rm -Rf apache_and_friends
mkdir -p apache_and_friends/packages
cd apache_and_friends/packages

# See http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
wget http://apache.rediris.es/httpd/httpd-2.2.9.tar.gz

# See http://perl.apache.org/download/index.html
wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz


# See http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/download.cgi
wget http://apache.rediris.es/httpd/libapreq/libapreq2-2.08.tar.gz
    
cd ..

tar -xzf packages/httpd*
tar -xzf packages/mod_perl*
tar -xzf packages/libapreq*


======================================================
Setup Apache server
========================================================
export APACHE=`echo httpd*` 
echo "INSTALLING to /opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX"
cd $APACHE

# This sets up the apache binaries in /opt/httpd.......
# with (eg) conf, htdocs etc in /opt/apache/
# adjust the options below for the environment that you want

./configure --prefix=/opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX \
            --localstatedir=/opt/apache \
            --sysconfdir=/opt/apache/conf \
            --datadir=/opt/apache \
            --with-mpm=$MPM\
            --enable-cache=shared\
            --enable-deflate=shared\
            --enable-disk-cache=shared\
            --enable-file-cache=shared\
            --enable-info=shared\
            --enable-mem-cache=shared\
            --enable-rewrite=shared\
            --enable-dav=shared\
            --enable-auth-digest\
            --enable-ssl=shared\
            --enable-expires=shared\
            --enable-unique-id=shared\
            --enable-usertrack=shared 
            
make
rm -Rf /opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX
make install
cd ..


======================================================
Setup mod_perl
========================================================

cd mod_perl-*
perl Makefile.PL \
      MP_AP_PREFIX=/opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX \
      MP_COMPAT_1X=0 

      
make
make test && make install && cd ..

======================================================
Setup libapreq 
========================================================

cd libapreq*
perl Makefile.PL --with-apache2-apxs=/opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX/bin/apxs
make && make test && make install

cd ..


########################################################

ln -fs /opt/$APACHE$SUFFIX/* /opt/apache
ln -sf /opt/apache/bin/apachectl /usr/bin/apachectl
ln -sf /opt/apache/bin/apachectl /etc/rc.d/httpd 
chkconfig httpd on

groupadd -r apache
useradd -r apache -g apache

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In reply to Re: Getting started with mod_perl by clinton
in thread Getting started with mod_perl by John M. Dlugosz

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