Apache mod_perl configuration

Jaap has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to install mod_perl 1.99 on my gentoo apache2 box. I added this to my httpd.conf:

LoadModule perl_module                  extramodules/mod_perl.so


Alias /mod-perl/ /home/teun/mod-perl/
<Location /mod-perl/>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
        Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
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But when i try to run http://formula.wtb.tue.nl/mod-perl/env.pl i get a 403 forbidden. The error_log only tells me this:

[Mon Nov 22 02:17:35 2004] [error] [client 82.161.115.80] client denie
+d by server configuration: /home/teun/mod-perl/env.pl
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Does anybody have any idea on what the problem is?

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Re: Apache mod_perl configuration by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2004 at 19:22 UTC
Most likely the user who the server runs as does not have access to the /home/teun/mod-perl/ directory.	[reply]
Re^2: Apache mod_perl configuration by Jaap (Curate) on Nov 21, 2004 at 19:54 UTC
`teun@formula/: ll /home/teun total 36 drwxr-xr-x 4 teun users 4096 Nov 21 22:18 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 20 12:30 ../ -rw------- 1 teun users 467 Nov 21 22:51 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 teun users 232 Oct 15 00:35 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 teun users 833 Oct 19 10:19 .bashrc -rw------- 1 teun users 4859 Nov 21 22:18 .viminfo drwxr-xr-x 2 teun users 4096 Nov 21 22:02 htdocs/ drwxr-xr-x 2 teun users 4096 Nov 21 22:18 mod-perl/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Apache mod_perl configuration by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2004 at 22:08 UTC
Humor me. Change to nobody (or whoever your server runs as) and try to read the files.	[reply]
Re: Apache mod_perl configuration by Arunbear (Prior) on Nov 21, 2004 at 20:09 UTC
I think `Alias /mod-perl/ /home/teun/mod-perl/` [download] is the problem. It should be `Alias /mod-perl /home/teun/mod-perl` [download] ... but I could be wrong; trailing /'s are nearly as confusing as temporal paradoxes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Apache mod_perl configuration by Jaap (Curate) on Nov 21, 2004 at 20:19 UTC
The help sais: `# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server wi +ll # require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in t +his # example, only "/icons/".. # #Alias /icons/ /var/www/localhost/icons/` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Apache mod_perl configuration by CountZero (Bishop) on Nov 21, 2004 at 20:24 UTC
What happens if you change `<Location>` to `<Directory>`? I always thought that `<Location>` was not to be used for physically existing directories. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Apache mod_perl configuration by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 21, 2004 at 22:07 UTC
Nope, you've got it backwards. Locations do not have to be real paths.	[reply]
Re^3: Apache mod_perl configuration by CountZero (Bishop) on Nov 22, 2004 at 21:32 UTC
That's exactly what I said! CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: Apache mod_perl configuration by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 22, 2004 at 21:42 UTC
Re^2: Apache mod_perl configuration by jdalbec (Deacon) on Nov 22, 2004 at 02:58 UTC
I think the fact that the `<Location>` is aliased may be a problem. Try `<Directory /home/teun/mod-perl>` instead. Update: also try adding an `Allow from all` line to the `<Directory>` block.	[reply] [d/l] [select]