Fw: Re: Apache2* and mod_perl2

[James Corteciano]

Have you try to update your ports tree collection? what is version of your
FreeBSD?


From: Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu>
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:03:14 -0500
> Subject: Re: Apache2* and mod_perl2
> --On October 3, 2006 12:53:17 PM +0800 Foo JH <jhfoo-ml at extracktor.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've been using FreeBSD + Apache 2.0 + mod_perl 2 for the longest time.
> > It's been pretty stable to date. What exactly are the problems you
> > encountered?
> >
> I was never able to get cgi working, as I described in the email you
> responded to (copied below.)
>
> > Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> Last night I spend several hours trying to get a website working with
> >> apache22 and then apache20 and mod_perl2.  I never succeeded.
> >>
> >> This website works fine with apache1.3.* and mod_perl.  We run the UBB
> >> bulletin board, which is written in perl.  All the executable files
> >> are named *.cgi.
> >>
> >> I googled and read document after document, waded through the apache
> >> mod_perl site until my eyes were crossed, all to no avail.  In
> >> apache20, after configuring httpd.conf in what I thought was the right
> >> way, I got a Forbidden error.  Obviously, I checked perms (even made
> >> the 777 briefly), but no go.  In apache22, all I ever got was the
> >> plain text of the program file.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a website that can unlock the mystery of mod_perl2
> >> on apache2?  I figure sooner or later I'm going to have to move to
> >> apache2, but I sure can't do that until I figure out how to get it
> >> working.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>
>
>


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James G. Corteciano
FreeBSD User