Re: Help installing mod_perl-1.99_08

Casey Songer wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question, but I've been searching the 
> documentation for 3 or 4 hours now and I still can't get mod_perl to 
> install.  I have mod_perl installed under apache 1.3.26 and have been 
> running that with great success for a couple years, but I am trying to 
> upgrade to apache 2.0.44 with mod_perl 1.99_08.  I can get mod_perl to 
> compile, but I can't get apache to include mod_perl when compiling. Here 
> are the steps I tried (trying to follow the steps in the installation 
> documentation):
>
> cd httpd-2.0.44
> ./configure --enable-ssl --enable-rewrite
> cd ../mod_perl-1.99_08
> perl Makefile.PL MP_AP_PREFIX=/usr/local/src/httpd-2.0.44 
> MP_INST_APACHE2=1 MP_USE_STATIC=1
> make
> make install
> cd ../httpd-2.0.40/modules
> ln -s /usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.99_08/src/modules/perl/ perl
> cd ..
> ./config.nice --enable-perl
> make
> make install
>
> When I do "httpd -l" mod_perl isn't listed, should it be?  I also get 
> errors for things in my apache configuration scripts like PerlHandler 
> and PerlRequire, which I assume means that mod_perl isn't installed.  I 
> have read through 
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/start_fast.html and 
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/install/install.html and the docs 
> that came with mod_perl.  I apologize if I am missing something obvious 
> here, but any help would be extremely appreciated, including links to 
> more documentation that I can read.

What you are missing is that Apache has to be built and installed first. I'll 
stress that in the docs.

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