I am having the strangest of problems -- I built Perl 5.6.1with mod_perl following Ray Zimmerman's excellent directions. The problem is Apache fails to start with mod_perl. Here is what is so bewildering -- if I comment out the mod_perl related lines then Apache starts and works fine. Then if I go in and uncomment the mod_perl related lines and restart, I get no error and my Perl scripts keep working. However, if I restart the machine then Apache doesn't start. I have to comment out mod_perl and then do the above rigmarole again.
Other than that, I am unable to get any error messages out of these programs. httpd -t or -T says my conf file syntax is ok. Same with apachectl configtest. I am unable to run apachectl status because I don't have lynx installed. When I start or restart Apache I get no errors. Perl seems to work fine otherwise. CPAN says I am ok. Obviously something is screwed up, but I have no idea what. Maybe I should do the whole thing again. If I do, should I uninstall everything that's there already, or will a new build and install just overwrite the old stuff? I am running 10.1.2 with the latest edition of devtools. Apache is 1.3.22. Many tia, pk/
