Thanks for the suggestions. I created the symlink with a2enmod perl. When I to restart the server now, I get a slightly different error message : 

rianne@rianne-OXYL015:~$ sudo a2enmod perl
Enabling module perl.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart
rianne@rianne-OXYL015:~$ service apache2 restart
ulimit: 88: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
apache2: Syntax error on line 203 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax
+ error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load: Cannot load 
+/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/mo
+dules/mod_perl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di
+rectory
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!

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I do have the libapache2-mod-perl2 installed: 

 dpkg -l|fgrep apache
ii  apache2                                2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-worker                     2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server - high speed threaded model
ii  apache2-threaded-dev                   2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache development headers - threaded MPM
ii  apache2-utils                          2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2.2-bin                          2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server common binary files
ii  apache2.2-common                       2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server common files
rc  libapache2-mod-perl2                   2.0.5-2ubuntu1             
+             Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server
ii  libbatik-java                          1.7.ubuntu-6ubuntu1        
+             xml.apache.org SVG Library

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Do you see anything missing in there ? Cheers, Rianne

In reply to Re^4: Apache Server restart fails by rianne_k
in thread Apache Server restart fails by rianne_k

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