HEAD http://yourhost/
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Server: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.3 mod_ssl/2.0.
+49 OpenSSL/0.9.7d DAV/2 SVN/1.0.2
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[localhost:~] ericpark% telnet eric 80
Trying 10.0.1.5...
Connected to eric.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / 1.1

__OUTPUT__
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:10:54 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_13 Perl/v5.8.0 PHP/4.3.5
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[Tue Jul 27 00:10:37 2004\] \[notice\] Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) mod_perl/1
+.99_13 Perl/v5.8.0 PHP/4.3.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
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That's right. It'll also show you if you're running the version of Apache you think you are. Ie, make sure you're starting the 2.0 by the full ...apache2/bin/apachectl path if you still have the 1.3 on that box too. Along that line. here is a handy alias I use almost every day when doing webdev stuff: alias ers "tail -f /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log"

  print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
  print "Server's environment\n";
  foreach ( keys %ENV ) {
      print "$_\t$ENV{$_}\n";
  }
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Server's environment
PERL_SEND_HEADER	On
SERVER_NAME	test
SERVER_SOFTWARE	Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI-Perl/1.1
MOD_PERL	mod_perl/1.29

I tried your script (with and without a #!), but it printed the server environment not apache's and it didn't say anything about mod_perl. Also, if you install apache2 and mod_perl2 without error, add the LoadModule line, but that doesn't work, how else are you supposed to get Apache to recognize mod_perl? Thanks. P

So you didn't see any of the environment variables such as gateway interface or server software? If that's the case then you might have your environment setup incorrectly.

I had purchased the "Oreilly Practical Mod_Perl" which helped immensely. Here is some of my httpd.conf referring to this subject. The last section is what you need to pay attention to I believe:

# MOD_Perl Section
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/perllibrary">
        AllowOverride None
        Options ExecCGI
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from All
</Directory>
                                                                      
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        ScriptAlias /perl/ "/usr/local/apache/perllibrary/"
                                                                      
+                                               
<IfModule mod_perl.c>
                                                                      
+                                               
        PerlRequire "/usr/local/apache/perllibrary/startup.pl"
                                                                      
+                                               
<Location /perl>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler Apache::Registry
        PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
.
.
.
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Basically the startup.pl includes which modules I want to include and a couple of additional libraries I wanted to add. Stuff that we wrote for our application. The last part is what you need to pay attention to. If you don't have your environment setup properly then it won't work.

NOTE: I'm not an expert in the use of Mod_Perl. Never used it until just a few weeks ago. I know that I was able to (finally) get it working just fine. Running the test script provided proof that mod_perl was loaded and running. If you don't see the server software or mod_perl version then it's defintely not loading.

If it's still not working please post your setup. The section dealing with your /perl location specifically. (hope I didn't confuse you with all this. I'm still learning myself ::grinz::)