Hi I'm integrating a C API with my mod_perl application which runs using Apache::Registry as it is a recent port from a standard CGI environment.
I've got things to work MOST of the time by using the following configuration; use strict; use CGI; use Crypt::SKey qw(compute_md5); use Inline ( C=>'/var/www/perl/clipmail.c', AUTO_INCLUDE=>'#include "/var/www/perl/API.h"', DIRECTORY => '/var/www/perl/_Inline/', ENABLE => 'UNTAINT' ); With all my C code in the clipmail.c file and the _Inline directory configured so apache can read and write to it. My problem is that if I leave the browser for a while and then come back and use it again, I get a server 500 error and looking in my error logs I get an entry as follows NOTE that the _inline directory option listed in the error IS NOT the same as the one I actually am using which starts with a capital "I"; >> ModPerl::Registry Invalid value '/var/www/perl/_inline' for config option DIRECTORY ... blah compilation aborted. I don't quite understand this, I am specifying which directory to use - and it's not that one!! I'm suspecting this is something to do with persistance and the way mod_perl under Apache::Registry works - I wonder if the error is cropping up when a new child process is spawned and maybe mod_perl is trying to re-compile the C code but for some reason is ignoring the config option??? Any help much appreciated Regards Roger Moffatt UK
