mod_perl questions (was Can't start Apache)

[Wes Plate]

On 8/5/03 11:34 AM, "Longman, Bill" wrote:

>> I don't see anything about mod_perl in my httpd.conf file,
>> shouldn't there
>> be?
> 
> It's probably being included. Look in the conf.d directory for other conf
> files. There's almost always a perl.conf.
> 
> BTW, the perl interpreter for Apache is a module, so you don't necessarily
> need to install all the pm's that you had to do with the CGI forked-perl
> setup of yore.


I ask about this in the httpd.conf file because the install directions I'm
following say:

> *)
> With mod_perl (speed!):
> =======================
> Add this to the mod_perl stuff section in httpd.conf
> [...]
> Alias /otrs-web/ "/opt/otrs/var/httpd/htdocs/"
> Alias /otrs/ "/opt/otrs/bin/cgi-bin/"
> 
> <Location /otrs>
>   SetHandler  perl-script
>   PerlHandler Apache::Registry
>   Options ExecCGI
>   PerlSendHeader On
> </Location>


So can I add this stuff ANYWHERE in the httpd.conf file?
Or should I add it to perl.conf?


Next, I need to add something to my httpd.conf file, should this stuff go
into perl.conf? 

Perl.conf doesn't have anything about a startup script.  So I'm worried
about what to do here.


> You may want to use a mod_perl startup script. Compiled modules on startup
> (speed!)! Use the mod_perl startup script which comes with otrs
> (scripts/apache-perl-startup.pl).
> 
> - Change the default startup script location of your httpd to
>   $OTRS_HOME/scripts/apache-perl-startup.pl in httpd.conf
>   [...]
>   # load all otrs modules
>   Perlrequire /opt/otrs/scripts/apache-perl-startup.pl
>   [...]
> 
> Edit the scripts/apache-perl-startup.pl script:
> 
>  - Establish datababase connections on process startup (httpd).
> 
>    [...]
>    use Apache ();
>    use Apache::DBI ();
>    Apache::DBI->connect_on_init('DBI:mysql:otrs', 'otrs', 'some-pass');
>    # Apache::DBI->connect_on_init($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr)
>    [...]
> 
>  - Change the otrs lib dir (if needed)!
> 
>    [...]
>    # --
>    # set otrs lib path!
>    # --
>    use lib "/path/to/otrs/";
>    use lib "/path/to/otrs/Kernel/cpan-lib";
>    [...]
> 
> Nice! You will love mod_perl! ,-)
> 
> PS: If you use mod_perl2 use the scripts/apache2-* scripts!




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