This is where you go wrong...

my $r = Apache2::Request->new(shift);

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You're throwing away the Apache2::RequestRec to build an Apache2::Request which is used for parsing parameters rather than setting content type and such. You want to keep both objects. Maybe try something like... 

sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    
    my $req = Apache2::Request->new($r);
    my $name = $req->param('name') || 'John Doe';
    
    $r->content_type('text/html');
    $r->print(<<EOHTML);
<html>...</html>
EOHTML
    
    return OK;
}

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If you haven't seen it yet, the mod_perl web site is an excellent source of documentation and tutorials.

In reply to Re: I can't find error section of code by rowdog
in thread I can't find error section of code by programmerPerl

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