Hi...I'm working on a fairly 'out of the box' CentOS box. It's my first time working with Apache2 / mod_perl2. I started to see some odd behavior and tracked it down to what I believe to be a scope issue. I can boil the problem down with the short script which I'll paste into this message (it's only twelve lines long). Here's the problem:

On the old, production server (running mod_perl and Apache 1.x), both $page vars are always the same: CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9d0b600) CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9d0b600)

On the NEW server (NOT running mod_perl, but running Apache 2.x), both $page vars are always the same: CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9d0b600) CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9d0b600)

But, on the NEW server (RUNNING mod_perl2 and running Apache 2.x), the $pages are sometimes different, presumably because it is picking the $page variable up from some other thread or process: CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9d0b600) CGI=HASH(0x2b3aa9fc9a20)

I tried 'compat' and even adjusting PerlInterpScope and neither one of those seemed to do anything (and I felt like I was desperately flailing for a solution instead of actually understanding what was going on…Any light shed would be much appreciated!

Example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $page = new CGI;
print $page->header();
print "<html><head></head><body>";
print $page;
print "<br>";
test();
print "</body></html>";

sub test{
    print $page;
}

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In reply to mod_perl2 scope issue? by Anonymous Monk

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