Re: Multiple versions of mod

On Mar 6, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> What version of "better" is that?  It sounds like my worst nightmare!
>
> You're running an ancient and unsupported version of mod_perl.  You
> really need to upgrade.  I'm not sure you can expect two different
> versions of AuthCookie to cooperate either.  Just go ahead and run a
> recent version of mod_perl, and use a single release of AuthCookie.

Yeah.  I'd agree.

Thanks for the feedback.

Its technically possible - you can run multiple versions, but its
going to be a nightmare maintaining that.

Well, it's a test system .. but I agree it's going to be a challenge.

The version 1.99 is way old , buggy, and unsupported.  There have
been a ton of apache updates since 2.4 too -- many of them security
related.  Add to that there was a GIANT api switch in 2.0.5(?) that
isn't backwards compatible.  Even if your solution worked, you're
only going to be creating new problems.

Upgrade your distribution to something stable , if you need to keep
it for some crazy reason --  find out exactly why the authcookie
isn't working.  It shouldn't be difficult to subclass the Authcookie
on server 1, and make it work with Apache2::Authcookie.

Exactly why is server 1 using apache::authcookie though?  Shouldn't
it be using apache2::authcookie ? 1.99 is mp2 beta -- the authcookie
module (at least one tied to something before the api switch ) should
work.

It's the old story -- this was a prototype thrown together that we spent a bit of time developing. It got turned into a piece of code that we used for 'a little processing' .. and then Production. I'm slowly upgrading it and moving it to newer platforms.

Thanks again.

Re: Multiple versions of mod_perl?