Hi monks,

I am trying to get a page working using Mason and Mod_Perl2. I have lampp set up, and I was following the examples from the Mason book.

I downloaded Mason using CPAN, and I see Mason is installed successfully with lampp's perl by running the following command and receiving the following output: /opt/lampp/bin/perl /opt/lampp/htdocs/mason/handshake.pl Greetings, Martians

This is the content of the script

#start of script
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use HTML::Mason;
my $interp = HTML::Mason::Interp->new( );
my $comp = $interp->make_component(comp_source => <<'END');
 Greetings, <% ("Earthlings", "Martians")[rand 2] %>
END
$interp->exec($comp);
#end of script
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But when I try to test the second example in the book, which is creating a html file with only one line:

hi Greetings, <% ("Earthlings", "Martians")[rand 2] %>
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lampp is complaining that it doesn't return a header, checking the error_log:

[Sun Mar 25 13:28:31 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header
+ from script. Bad header=hi Greetings, Earthlings: handshake3.html
[Sun Mar 25 13:28:31 2012] [warn] /mason/handshake3.html did not send 
+an HTTP header
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I have in my httpd.conf the following setup:

PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
<Location /mason/handshake3.html>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</Location>
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I tried adding the DefaultType "text/html" line to the Location directive, but it doesn't change anything.

After a day of googling, the answer still shuns me. Would you kind monks please bless your enlightenment upon me.