From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 04:53:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F259216A4B3 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: from mail.extracktor.com (www.nexlabs.com [210.193.32.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3427A43D8C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:53:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: (qmail 77554 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2006 04:50:34 -0000 Received: from 130.210-193-15.adsl.qala.com.sg (HELO ?192.168.1.119?) (jhfoo@trendicate.com@210.193.15.130) by www.nexlabs.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2006 04:50:34 -0000 Message-ID: <4521ECBD.9040003@extracktor.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:53:17 +0800 From: Foo JH User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: <174ED5B3F73AC65965235FC2@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <174ED5B3F73AC65965235FC2@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache2* and mod_perl2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:53:43 -0000 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? 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@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/