(ugh - had this all typed out, and then the power went out. second time's the charm..)

I can't seem to get mod_perl to 'activate' on my system. I have a small program (testit.html - yes, I know that it has an .html extension, but that is taken care of) That prints out all the ENV variables: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -X
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Server's environment\n";
foreach ( keys %ENV ) {
    print "$_\t$ENV{$_}<br>\n";
}
exit;

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These two variables are of note: 
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
MOD_PERL mod_perl/1.99_16

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See how there is a mod_perl var, but the gateway is still CGI?

Here's my conf: 
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

Alias /diroftest "/var/www/html/diroftest"


<Directory "/var/www/html/billy2/bvs">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    Options +Includes
    DirectoryIndex index.shtml
    SetHandler perl-script
    AddHandler perl-script .html
    Options +ExecCGI
    PerlHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
#    PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
#    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

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For the record, I get the exact same error if:
- I use ScriptAlias instead of Alias
- I use ::Registry instead of ::PerlRun

Any idea why this gateway wouldn't be flipping over to CGI-Perl/1.1? It has to be something stupid on my part..

In reply to Getting mod_perl to actually 'activate'.. by MashMashy

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