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

Dear Monks I desperately need thy help..

I have installed Apache 2.2.11 on my Windows Vista (yeah!), and also mod_perl 2.0. I have Strawberry perl and through PPM I also installed HTML::Mason 1.40. So, theoretically I should be able to serve mason pages. However, although I mod_perl works well (the server processes .pl files), my Mason modules cause the server to throw a 500 Internal Error. The error log from Apache is this: 
Loading CGI at runtime.  You could increase shared memory between Apac
+he processes by preloading it in your httpd.conf or handler.pl file
Use of uninitialized value $file in concatenation (.) or string at C:/
+strawberry/perl/site/lib/HTML/Mason/Compiler/ToObject.pm line 116.
Use of uninitialized value $file in concatenation (.) or string at C:/
+strawberry/perl/site/lib/HTML/Mason/Compiler/ToObject.pm line 116.
Reference found where even-sized list expected at C:/strawberry/perl/s
+ite/lib/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm line 610.
[Mon Apr 06 12:10:07 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Must specify eit
+her 'comp_source' or 'comp_file' parameter to 'make_component()'\nSta
+ck:\n  [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\Request.pm:556]
+\n  [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\ApacheHandler.pm:2
+06]\n  [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\Request.pm:331]
+\n  [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\Request.pm:211]\n 
+ [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\ApacheHandler.pm:97]\
+n  [C:\\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\Class\\Container.pm:275]\n  [C:\
+\strawberry\\perl\\site\\lib\\Class\\Container.pm:353]\n  [C:\\strawb
+erry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\Interp.pm:348]\n  [C:\\strawberry
+\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\ApacheHandler.pm:868]\n  [C:\\strawbe
+rry\\perl\\site\\lib\\HTML\\Mason\\ApacheHandler.pm:822]\n  [(eval 32
+):8]\n  [-e:0]\n

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Function parameters are not parsed well, which might indicate a problem with Params::Validate, but this is up-to-date in my machine.

My Apache configuration is this: 
#MOD_PERL Settings
LoadFile "C:/strawberry/perl/bin/perl510.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
<FilesMatch "\.pl$">
      SetHandler perl-script
      PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    Options +ExecCGI
 </FilesMatch>

 
 #MASON Settings
     PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler

    <FilesMatch "\.html$">
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
    </FilesMatch>

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If anyone has encountered such problems before, please help.
Notice:Whoever helps me out of this nightmare, will be awarded with a cool Mason website, free of charge!* :)

* I may retrieve the offer without prior notice

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Re: HTML::Mason problems in Apache 2.2 (Windows)
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2009 at 13:41 UTC
    Try specifying 
      PerlSetVar MasonDataDir
  PerlSetVar MasonCompRoot

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      This didn't do any good. The component directories do all exist and have the necessary permission settings.
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        Then its a bug in your code. 
        Use of uninitialized value $file in concatenation...
Must specify either 'comp_source' or 'comp_file' parameter to 'make_co
+mponent()

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        are pretty specific
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[d/l]

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