in reply to Re^2: Apache Server restart fails
in thread Apache Server restart fails

Oh, and in the case it /is/ a debian-based distribution, please paste the output of dpkg -l|fgrep apache, so we can look for any missing packages. You should at least have libapache2-mod-perl2 (if you installed mod_perl through your distribution's package manager (which is highly recommended))

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Re^4: Apache Server restart fails
by rianne_k (Novice) on Mar 05, 2012 at 09:48 UTC
    Thanks for the suggestions. I created the symlink with a2enmod perl. When I to restart the server now, I get a slightly different error message : 
    
rianne@rianne-OXYL015:~$ sudo a2enmod perl
Enabling module perl.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart
rianne@rianne-OXYL015:~$ service apache2 restart
ulimit: 88: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
apache2: Syntax error on line 203 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax
+ error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load: Cannot load 
+/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/mo
+dules/mod_perl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di
+rectory
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
   ...fail!

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    I do have the libapache2-mod-perl2 installed: 
    
 dpkg -l|fgrep apache
ii  apache2                                2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-worker                     2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server - high speed threaded model
ii  apache2-threaded-dev                   2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache development headers - threaded MPM
ii  apache2-utils                          2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2.2-bin                          2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server common binary files
ii  apache2.2-common                       2.2.20-1ubuntu1.2          
+             Apache HTTP Server common files
rc  libapache2-mod-perl2                   2.0.5-2ubuntu1             
+             Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server
ii  libbatik-java                          1.7.ubuntu-6ubuntu1        
+             xml.apache.org SVG Library

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    Do you see anything missing in there ? Cheers, Rianne
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      To find what is missing run ldd /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so
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        that is missing indeed: 
        rianne@rianne-OXYL015:/usr/lib/apache2/modules$ ldd /usr/lib/apache2/m
+odules/mod_perl.so
ldd: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so: No such file or directory

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        How do I get it back there?
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        I manually copied mod_perl.so into the right directory (probably not the best approach). Now the server is up and running again, but I still get the error: 
        
[Tue Mar 06 10:31:56 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] failed to resolv
+e handler `ModPerl::Registry': Can't locate ModPerl/Registry.pm in @I
+NC (@INC contains: /home/rianne/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.2/lib/
+site_perl/5.14.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/rianne/perl5/perlbre
+w/perls/perl-5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2 /home/rianne/perl5/perlbrew/
+perls/perl-5.14.2/lib/5.14.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/rianne/p
+erl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.2/lib/5.14.2 . /etc/apache2) at (eval 3
+) line 2.\n, referer: http://localhost/www/Wordclouds/wordclouds.html

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        I can run run ldd /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so now, this is the outcome: 
        ldd /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffeb376000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2498a90000
+)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f249880c000)
    libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f2498
+5d2000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f
+24983b5000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2498016000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f249905c000)

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        Do you see anything missing there?
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        I reinstalled libapache2-mod-perl2, and for now it seems to be working. Thanks for the help!
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