mod_perl2 packages missing.

TedYoung has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I am trying to get mod_perl2 running a debian 3 box. Naturally I have Apach2 and Mod_Perl2 packages installed. The problem is my test handler cannot find any of the Apache2 or ModPerl libs in @INC.

My Handler:

package CEAS4;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);

sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print "mod_perl 2.0 rocks!\n";
    
    return Apache2::Const::OK;
}

1;
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My error message:

failed to resolve handler `CEAS4': Can't locate Apache2/Const.pm in @I
+NC (@INC contains: /home/www/hosts/dev/ceas4 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib
+/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/per
+l5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . /
+etc/apache2) at /home/www/hosts/dev/ceas4/CEAS4.pm line 11.\nBEGIN fa
+iled--compilation aborted at /home/www/hosts/dev/ceas4/CEAS4.pm line 
+11.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 3.
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Where things get really silly is my list of files in /usr/lib/perl5:

/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Access.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/BuildConfig.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Build.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/CmdParms.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Command.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/compat.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Connection.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Const.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Directive.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Filter.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/FilterRec.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/HookRun.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Log.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Module.pm
...
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/APR/Const.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/APR/Date.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/APR/Error.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/APR/Finfo.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/APR/IpSubnet.pm
...
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ModPerl/RegistryCooker.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ModPerl/RegistryLoader.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ModPerl/Registry.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ModPerl/StructureMap.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ModPerl/TestReport.pm
...
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Using Apache2::Apache:: instead of just Apache2:: doesn't work because it cannot find ModPerl::

So, I thought that /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2 should have been in @INC, but then the namespace for everything would just be Apache:: not Apache2::

What am I doing wrong here?

Ted Young

($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)

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Re: mod_perl2 packages missing. by rhesa (Vicar) on Apr 30, 2007 at 19:23 UTC
Debian 3 (aka Sarge) doesn't have the real 2.0 version of mod_perl. They packaged an old preview release (1.99 something) which doesn't include the final API. Maybe you could find a backport somewhere, but I never looked. I recommend you either upgrade to Debian 4 (aka Etch), or install your own mod_perl2 from source.	[reply]
Re^2: mod_perl2 packages missing. by TedYoung (Deacon) on May 01, 2007 at 12:16 UTC
Thanks, the Sarge modperl package was in fact 1.99. For those of you needing modperl under Sarge, I found http://backports.org has a 2.02 package. Ted Young `($$<<$$=>$$<=>$$<=$$>>$$) always returns 1. :-)`	[reply] [d/l]


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