in reply to ModPerl Compatibility

Are your filesystem permissions set properly to allow user 'apache' to write to the filesystem? mod_perl should not require changes. It's most likely your permissions, second most likely your Apache httpd.conf setup. Third most likely is that you've mixed up http-accessed web directories from DocumentRoot with /-referenced UNIX local directories.

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Re^2: ModPerl Compatibility
by mpeters (Chaplain) on May 06, 2005 at 14:29 UTC
    mod_perl should not require changes
    This is almost completely not true. mod_perl is very different from running a command line perl script. As was mentioned in other responses your working directory may not be what you think it is, and depending on how apache is set up, it may even prevent you from doing a chdir().

    Not to mention that you are now running in a persistent environment where the difference between compile time and run time are even more significant. This will also magnify other problems in your code (globals, unintentional closures, etc) that would not show up otherwise.

    All of these issues are known and well documented and acceptable if you want the performance benefits of mod_perl. But to say that it shouldn't require any code changes is very misleading...

    And for the OP, you can read here for more info on begining your mod_perl life.
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