Re: Needfurther help on MP2 config.

benjamin mccall wrote:
> I'm sorry, but i just cannot comprehend the doc or Doug's book
> explanation on how to further configure Apache to load any custom perl
> modules I might add.
> I dropped a perl dir under apache2:  /usr/local/apache2/lib/perl/Apache
> per Doug's direction  (from "Apache Modules..." p. 28). I don't believe I
> have a perl startup file. Or do i? And where do I place the "PerlSetEnv"
> directive? In httpd.conf? I cannot seem to make sense between the online
> doc and the book's direction. No criticism to the authors, I'm just a bit
> slow. I would like to pace myself learning how to build and implement my
> own perl and c modules with mod_perl as advocated by Steve and Doug.
>
> My testbed includes Apache 2.043: mod_perl(1.99_08): perl 5.8 on linux.
> If someone could help me with this, I'd really appreciate it. 

First, the eagle book covers mod_perl 1.0. Not 2.0. Though most of the Perl 
things should work in the same way under 2.0. The chapters on C are definitely
applying only to Apache 1.3. Not Apache 2.0.

Second, the online documentation for mod_perl 2.0 is far from being complete 
and you should refer to the 1.0 documentation for the missing parts. Use the 
search to find your way around. A help to port the 1.0 bits of docs to 2.0 is 
appreaciated.

PerlSetEnv and other Perl* directives go to httpd.conf.

The startup file should be created, it's not provided by mod_perl.

So go to http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide and start reading from there. 
All your questions are already answered there.

Finally, since mod_perl 2.0 is under development and the docs are incomplete 
you are much better off learning with mod_perl 1.0 which is stable and pretty 
much bug free.

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