Hi all,

Getting my feet wet with mod_perl 2 and I'm having trouble reliably testing programs
due to the fact that files/modules seem to be reloading only when Apache deems suitable.

What I'm looking for is a way of having Apache completely reload every component of a particular
program when a change is written to disk. Not just the modules - also the program files calling the modules.
A sort of "refresh all" if you will, without having to restart the web server for every simple change.
For example in this simple set-up:
index.pl -> program called on from web
testmod.pm -> module loaded by index.pl containing various subroutines and some configuration variables which have been exported to index.pl

If I write a change to testmod.pm it's seemingly ignored for an undeterminable period.
Using Apache2::Reload however, testmod.pm will be reloaded. Unfortunately, the configuration variables already exported to index.pl are not updated, probably because Apache sees index.pl as being unchanged.

When updating non-mod_perl systems I'm used to making arbitrary changes and seeing the results immediately, and it would make development a lot simpler to have this comfort of "what you see is the current state of the program",
instead of some half in-memory/on disk version when making these incidental changes.


Any suggestions?

In reply to Reload all files in mod_perl testing environment by Anonymous Monk

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