Re: probem testing mod_perl post-install: mod_perl API works perfect, but CGI script renders no output

[Christine Jamison <suppressed>]

Responses in blue (looked pretty blue in the color palette, but looks violet here):

Philip M. Gollucci wrote:

Embedded Perl version *v5.8.4* for *Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.0 OpenSSL/0.9.6m PHP/4.3.10 mod_perl/1.25* process *27940*,
running since Fri Jul 14 11:02:13 2006

You really should upgrade your httpd to 1.3.36 if you've just rebuilt it anyway.

Yes, but I had a BITCH of a time just getting all THIS to build! Now that it (mostly) works, time to upgrade in the fall....

my $r = shift;
$r->send_http_header('text/plain');
$r->print("mod_perl (2) rules!\n");

Looks good

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
print "mod_perl (1) rules!\n";
exit

Why the exit ?

I was trying ANYTHING I could think of to fix this problem....

#Alias          /perl/ /usr/local/apache/perl/

You need that Alias for the below location

For production, I was planning on it. For testing, I just put the scripts in $DOCUMENT_ROOT/perl/

PerlModule              Apache::Registry
<Location /perl/>
  SetHandler           perl-script
  PerlHandler          Apache::Registry
  Options              +ExecCGI
  Allow from all
  PerlSendHeader       On

Not your problem, but you dont' want to send the headers in both script and via this switch.

Well, I figured that if it rendered AND I saw headers, I could easily fix that. "Two is better than none." <grin>

</Location>

PerlFreshRestart On
PerlWarn On
PerlTaintCheck On

Where's the cgi-bin config ?
i.e.:
Script Alias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin>
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

I did not include it, as the CGI stuff is working, but here it is:

   <Directory "/htdocs/wip2">
       Options All
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
       php_admin_value open_basedir "/SAP0/htdocs/wip2/"
   </Directory>
   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/htdocs/wip2/cgi-bin/"

And, here's something "significant" I left out:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Any more thoughts?

BTW, thanks for offering to help!

Christine.