Re: [ANNOUNCE] libapreq-1.1 is out

Nathan Byrd wrote:
[...]
> > Matt, Apache::Test may not work when run under root, because Apache won't let 
> > you start the server as 'User root' so it tries to use 'nobody' or something 
> > else as the username the server runs under, which of course has no perms to 
> > access files created by root and hence the problem.
> >
> > I suppose the solution is to chown all the autogenerated files to that chosen 
> > user and then the issue will be resolved. Meanwhile please try to run the test 
> > suite as non-root.
[...]
> I've run into the same problem while testing with Apache::PAR. 
> Unfortunately, I don't think chown'ing the files will work (at least in
> my case), because the directory itself (/root/.cpanplus on my box) isn't
> accessible from a non-root user.  I haven't worked on a solution yet,
> but I was thinking the best thing to do might be to create a temp
> directory (maybe with a prompt for the directory to create it under)
> from the generated Makefile in the start_httpd section and copy any
> content (and then remove it in kill_httpd)
>
> Maybe this would be a good feature to add to the Apache::test and
> Apache::Test modules?

I've already committed a solution for Apache::Test that should work on all 
Unices, pending a test on win32. Here is the commit that includes the change 
and the logic:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-test-cvs&m=104397443526605&w=2

At least on Unix mod_perl-2.0 now has no problems running 'make test' as root.

As for Apache::test, I'm not familiar with it, so perhaps someone who is, can 
backport that above patch to it.

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