adding new cpan module to mod_perl / apache installation..

["Mark Henry" <suppressed>]

Hi All,

First - noob alert - I've searched all avenues that I know of, but I'm not positive how to frame my question (being an apache/mod_perl virgin), so its possible there are still some trees un-barked up.  (The 'searchable' archives link has no search option that I could find 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-modperl/)

I've set up apache & mod_perl and all seems well.

My first step is to add NIS authentication/authorization, which I need.  

This doesnt appear to come by default, so I'm planning to use this lovely looking module:
http://search.cpan.org/~speeves/Apache-AuthenNIS-0.13/AuthenNIS.pm

Sounds great.. but I'm not sure exactly under which perl install (via perl -MCPAN etc) I should be installing..  There doesn't appear to be a perl executable under my mod perl tree, and I wouldn't really expect there to be.

So, using the locally installed site perl, the CPAN installer gets to the end, says, wheres mod_perl.pm ...  well it is out there under the apache tree, but I dont know how to feed it's location into the CPAN installer, and anyway if I somehow managed to, would it even be installed to the correct location for mod_perl to use?


Basically, how do you install a (what I would think of as a) 'normal' perl module into mod_perl?  

Also, if anyone has any suggestions on the auth side, I'm all ears.
(This looks helpful: 
http://www.math.tu-clausthal.de/~matsa/linux/apache-nis/)

Many thanks,

Mark