Re^3: mod_perl configuration of Apache2

When I run the script from my previous posting I get the following:

If 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1' then regular CGI.
If 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE - CGI-Perl/1.1' then mod-perl.

========== TESTING ABILITY OF A PERL SCRIPT TO ACCESS ENVIRONMENT VARI
+ABLES ========
REMOTE_ADDR = 127.0.0.1
REMOTE_PORT = 45469
HTTP_REFERER =

========== FULL DUMP OF ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ==========
DOCUMENT_ROOT = /var/www
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT = text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html
+;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET = ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING = gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE = en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_CONNECTION = keep-alive
HTTP_HOST = 127.0.0.1
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE = 300
HTTP_USER_AGENT = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:
+1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4
MOD_PERL = mod_perl/2.0.2
MOD_PERL_API_VERSION = 2
PATH = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
QUERY_STRING =
REMOTE_ADDR = 127.0.0.1
REMOTE_PORT = 45469
REQUEST_METHOD = GET
REQUEST_URI = /perl/cgi_or_mod-perl.pl
SCRIPT_FILENAME = /var/www/perl/cgi_or_mod-perl.pl
SCRIPT_NAME = /perl/cgi_or_mod-perl.pl
SERVER_ADDR = 127.0.0.1
SERVER_ADMIN = webmaster@localhost
SERVER_NAME = 127.0.0.1
SERVER_PORT = 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL = HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE =
Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1build1 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.7 Se
+rver at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1build1 mod_perl/2.
+0.2 Perl/v5.8.7
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Based upon the DuBois text I conclude that mod_perl is installed but not being used when the perl code is executed.

Bruce

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Re^4: mod_perl configuration of Apache2 by gmargo (Hermit) on Dec 13, 2009 at 11:56 UTC
The DuBois book is based on `mod_perl1` so not everything is applicable to `mod_perl2`. According to this Apache documentation, http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/porting/compat.html#Special_Environment_Variables, the `GATEWAY_INTERFACE` environment variable can no longer be used to determine if mod_perl in use. Instead it says to use the `MOD_PERL` environment variable.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: mod_perl configuration of Apache2 by Bruce32903 (Scribe) on Dec 13, 2009 at 12:13 UTC
Thank you gmargo. That seems to put an end to my problem. Making this work was so much trouble that I was starting to wonder if I was trying to fix something that wasn't broken. The bad news is that I was. The good news is that you put an end to my suffering and I can move forward knowing that I will have "good" mod_perl code and not "in need of slight rework" CGI code. Thank you, Bruce	[reply]