hey all,

I just installed mod_perl and got it running with apache2... or almost running.

in the /etc/conf.d/apache2, i added the -D PERL and my commonapache2.conf has:

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
    PerlModule Apache2::ModPerl::Registry
    #set Apache::Registry Mode for /perl Alias
    <Location /perl/*.pl>
        SetHandler perl-script
        <IfDefine MODPERL2>
        PerlResponseHandler Apache2::ModPerl::Registry
        </IfDefine>
        <IfDefine !MODPERL2>
        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
        </IfDefine>
        Options -Indexes ExecCGI
        PerlSendHeader On
    </Location>
</IfModule>
[download]

but notice the line:

PerlModule Apache2::ModPerl::Registry
[download]

if a place a script in the /var/www/localhost/perl/ and call it "test.pl" (with permissions 775), it gives me an internal server error.

contents of test.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

print "hello";
[download]

also tried:

sub handler
{
   my $r = shift;
   print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
   print "hello";
}
1;
[download]

with no luck

fairly straight forward, but i check the error_log for apache, and it reports:

[...date here...] [error] failed to resolve handler `Apache2::ModPerl:
+:Registry'
[download]

which happens after every visit to http://127.0.0.1/perl/test.pl. I am not really sure what is going on. the Apache2::ModPerl::Registry module is found via find / -iname Registry.pm at

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/Apache2/ModPerl/Registry.p
+m
[download]

, and that path is in the includes... isnt it?

from the http://127.0.0.1/perl-status page, it tells me that all the modules are loaded, and i dont really know if this is an apache config problem or if it is something with my test scripts.

i am a bit confused, any help would be great. thanks monks.