ServerType standalone
ServerRoot "/home/andrew/apache"
PidFile /home/andrew/apache/logs/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile /home/andrew/apache/logs/httpd.scoreboard
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 0

LoadModule perl_module        libexec/libperl.so

ClearModuleList
AddModule mod_so.c
AddModule mod_perl.c

Port 1810
User nobody
Group nobody
ServerAdmin andrew@tomazos.com
DocumentRoot "/home/andrew/web/ikb"

PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler # <-- FAILS HERE
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The same error as original post originating from the PerlModule line.

-Andrew.

PerlModule is not used for setting Apache handlers; for that you need PerlHandler.

See the example from the Mason book.

Yes, I know, but even when I dont use a PerlModule to load HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler in httpd.conf it still doesn't work.

It fails when the handler gets called and HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler is loaded at runtime with the same error:

[Mon Aug  1 10:01:09 2005] [error] unknown field \n passed to construc
+tor for class HTML::Mason::ExceptionCompilation failed in require at 
+(eval 5) line 3.\n
[Mon Aug  1 10:01:09 2005] [error] Can't locate object method "make_ah
+" via package "Apache" (perhaps you forgot to load "Apache"?) at (eva
+l 31) line 6.\n
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-Andrew.

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Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

Try using a wrapper as suggested in the Mason manual, for example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# handler.pl

package HTML::Mason;

use HTML::Mason;
use HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler;
use strict;

{
  package HTML::Mason::Commands;
  use DBI ();
  use CGI ();
}

DBI->install_driver('mysql');
CGI->compile(':standard');

my $ah = HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler->new( 
  comp_root => '/path/to/comp/root',
  data_dir  => '/path/to/data/dir'
);

sub handler {
  my ($r) = @_;   
  return $ah->handle_request($r);
}

1;
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Load it from httpd.conf:

PerlRequire /path/to/handler.pl
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Speaking of httpd.conf, here's part of yours:

> KeepAlive On
> ...
> MaxClients 150

You should configure apache properly for mod_perl. Generally you want keepalive turned off and maxclients set to something your server can handle based on the size of your apache children.

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perl -MO=Deparse -e"u j t S n a t o e h r , e p l r a h k c r e"