Hello and welcome to the Monastery. Before you get hit over the head by some of the monks, keep in mind that your Apache configuration problem is not really a Perl problem. :) A lot of the monks don't like to answer Apache questions because there are already forums for them http://www.apache.org.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, that error message is telling you something. Your apache configuration file httpd.conf has a syntax error that you need to fix. It is probably having trouble finding the mod_perl module you installed (assuming apache was working before you tried to install mod_perl). There is a useful article at DevShed by Stas Bekman, who also has a book on mod_perl.

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