I've done a few projects with mod_perl and have always installed everything by hand from source. But, I have a Fedora 9 box which already had both installed and recently upgraded with yum but I am having trouble verifying the installation.

This is what my httpd.conf file did have: 


  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule /s/ /index.cgi [NC,QSA]

  <Directory "/path/to/site/docs">
      Options Indexes Includes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  </Directory>

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I dropped this in hoping for a bit of a speed boost: 

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule /s/ /index.cgi [NC,QSA]

  <Location "/path/to/site/docs/index.cgi">
      SetHandler perl-script
      PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
      PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
      Options +ExecCGI
  </Location>

  <Directory "/path/to/site/docs">
#      Options Indexes Includes ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  </Directory>

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There was no noticeable - anything. In the past, when I have done something like this, I got a quick and easy CGI boost. But, in fact the site worked exactly as before. I did notice that making changes to index.cgi didn't require a restart of Apache (which used to be required with mod_perl). And so after doing: 

# telnet localhost 81
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:24:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Fedora)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Connection closed by foreign host.

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... I didn't see anything in the header indicating mod_perl. So, then I added a LoadModule directive to the httpd.conf and upon restarting Apache I got an error saying mod_perl was already loaded.

What am I missing here?

In reply to Yum install of Apache & mod_perl by Rodster001

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