On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Joshua Chamas wrote:
> I think your analysis is right, that Script_OnStart is not
> always being called, and the reason is that it is not always
> being found in the global.asa ... I don't know how it would
> work sometimes & not others. A trace from the error_log
> with Debug set to -1 would help from a fresh apache stop/start
> through when the problem occurs.
I have attached the error log (might be pointless now since I fixed the
problem---see below, but just in case you want it to investigate why
this problem happened in the first place). Here's what I did:
1. Start Apache
2. Load script in my browser (it gets an error)
3. Type "touch global.asa"
4. Load script in my browser again (it works this time)
> I get the feeling that something is manipulating the symbol
> table in the *main:: package namespace where your GlobalPackage
> is set. It may be that if you change GlobalPackage to
> something else, they you will be safe from that. I can
> imagine that certain kinds of packages like Apache::StatINC
> or Apache::Reload might do these symbol table manipulations,
> so try seeing if using those might be the problem too.
I tried running it without the "PerlSetVar StatINC 1" line in my
configuration, but I still got the error.
I just tried changing the GlobalPackage to "foo" and now it works. I guess
it was something clobbering the "main" package, so I shouldn't use that
package name anymore?
Programming technique question: What's the right way of sharing global
variables with my *.pm files? The reason I'm using GlobalPackage is so
that I can refer to (e.g.) $dbh by typing $foo::dbh. Is that the right way
of doing it? It does get a bit tedious having to type $foo::dbh a lot
instead of just $dbh.
> Also, try to avoid having multiple global.asa's from multiple
> ASP applications having the same global package.
I only have one global.asa running on this Apache server.
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