Thanks for the reply.

The machine that I was working on is at work and I will not have access to it again until Monday. Thus, I am trying to set up mod_perl on a home machine. Hopefully what I learn at home this weekend will help me at work on Monday morning.

I don't know if the typo was present in apache2.conf or if it was introduced as I was working on my posting. I'll check that early Monday. By following the provided guidance I added the lines to my home machine. This is a machine that I tried to set up mod_perl on about a year ago (unsuccessfully) and therefore I don't have a "clean install" at home.

At home I am getting perl execution, but it is CGI perl and not mod_perl. I know this due to a modified version of the program from page 76 of "MySQL and Perl for the Web" by Paul DuBois (ISBN 0-7357-1054-6). The test program is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# FILE: cgi_or_mod-perl.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:standard);
print header(), start_html ("CGI or mod-perl test");

print "If 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1' then regular CGI.<BR>";
print "If 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE - CGI-Perl/1.1' then mod-perl.<BR>";
print "<BR>";

print "========== TESTING ABILITY OF A PERL SCRIPT TO ACCESS ENVIRONME
+NT VARIABLES ========<BR>";
print "REMOTE_ADDR = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}<BR>";
print "REMOTE_PORT = $ENV{REMOTE_PORT}<BR>";
print "HTTP_REFERER = $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}<BR>";
print "<BR>";

print "========== FULL DUMP OF ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ==========<BR>";
print map { "$_ = $ENV{$_}<BR>\n"} sort(keys(%ENV));
print "<BR>";

print end_html();

exit (0);

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The test code worked well years ago when I used it to set up mod_perl on Debian machines (that also was a pain to get the mod_perl to run).

My current status is:

WORK COMPUTER - Current status is a mystery but the above discovered typo is a possibility. I'll know more Monday morning.

HOME COMPUTER - When a browser hits a perl script the script will execute and the "expected" results will be returned. BUT, THIS WAS CGI PERL AND NOT MOD_PERL. The cause of this is still a mystery and I am working on it.

Thanks,
Bruce

In reply to Re^2: mod_perl configuration of Apache2 by Bruce32903
in thread mod_perl configuration of Apache2 by Bruce32903

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