Dear William As usual, thank you for your valuable reply.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:16 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/8/2011 8:30 AM, Zeno Davatz wrote: >>> >>> Can you start it "manually" from the console? >>> >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/invoking.html >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/windows.html#wincons >>> >>>> mod_ruby.so could not be loaded. If I open mod_ruby.so with >>> >>> Usually it will tell you a reason why something cannot be loaded. >> >> This is my debug output of >> >> httpd -e debug >> >> https://gist.github.com/816510 >> >> ruby_module seems to be wonderfully loaded when starting from the console. > > This means the ruby module or functions within msys have an intrinsic design > flaw that make them incompatible with running under the context of a > 'service'. Hmm, interesting. So apart from that this means that Apache can actually load the module without a problem. > As a service, there are no stdin/out/err file handles opened, they are simply > NULL and may cause programs to misbehave in interesting ways. I can't tell > you what specifically mod_ruby has done wrong in this respect, because I'm > simply too busy to review the code, but anyone familiar with windows services > and the C language should be able to decipher this with little hassle. Thank you again! I am willing to pay anybody who can provide me with some help here. If you know somebody, please let me know. Or if you know somebody, I can contact. Otherwise I will try to proceed a bit myself. Seems doable. Thank you for your time. Best Zeno
