You'll want to name the code you called inside INIT/CHECK because mod_perl doesn't call those. This gives mod_perl-using code the ability to manually call your INIT-time code at the appropriate time.

INIT
{
    init();
}

sub init
{
    # INIT-time code goes here. mod_perl users are expected to call th
+is function as appropriate for them.
    # perl will not automatically trigger this function for them.
    ...
}
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