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preliminary developer documentation
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=head1 Disclaimer
This is preliminary developer's documentation, incomplete and probably
inaccurate at times. Feel free to contribute.
=head1 Installing
Download the apache-2.0 and modperl-2.0 tarballs, and extract them
in the same directory:
% ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 8 eric eric 512 May 28 03:12 apache-2.0
drwxr-xr-x 8 eric eric 512 May 28 11:59 modperl-2.0
=head1 Compiling
=head2 Create the build environment
% perl Makefile.PL [options]
I<options> an optional list of (key,value) pairs. Currently all options are
boolean, set them with MP_XXX=1.
=over 4
=item MP_PROMPT_DEFAULT
Do not prompt the user, instead use default answers to any questions.
=item MP_USE_DSO
build mod_perl as a DSO
=item MP_USE_GTOP
use Gtop
=item MP_DEBUG
compilation includes symbols for debugging. Implies MP_TRACE
=item MP_TRACE
enable tracing
=item MP_CPP
just run the C preprocessor, don't compile or link
=back
Options can also be specified in the file C<makepl_args.mod_perl2>.
=head2 Compile mod_perl
% make
=head2 Configure and compile Apache
% cd ../apache-2.0/src
% ./configure --with-mpm=mpmt_pthread
% make
=head1 mod_perl configuration directives
=head2 Installing handlers
=over 4
=item PerlChildInitHandler
=item PerlOpenLogsHandler
=item PerlPostConfigHandler
=item PerlPreConnectionHandler
=item PerlProcessConnectionHandler
=item PerlHeaderParserHandler
=item PerlAccessHandler
=item PerlAuthenHandler
=item PerlAuthzHandler
=item PerlTypeHandler
=item PerlFixupHandler
=item PerlLogHandler
=item PerlPostReadRequestHandler
=item PerlTransHandler
=back
=head2 General directives
=over 4
=item PerlSwitches switches
pass switches to the Perl command line. For example, to enable
warnings:
PerlSwitches -w
=item PerlTrace [level]
set the trace level. This directive is enabled when mod_perl is compiled with
the MP_TRACE option. C<level> is either:
all
which sets maximum logging and debugging levels;
a combination of one or more option letters from the following list:
d directive processing
g Perl runtime interaction
h handlers
i interpreter pool management
m memory allocations
s perl sections
a numeric value.
When C<level> is not specified, the tracing level will be set to the
value of the MOD_PERL_TRACE environment variable.
=back
=head2 Threaded mode directives
These directives are enabled only in a threaded mod_perl+Apache combo.
=over 4
=item PerlInterpStart
Number of Perl interpreters to start
=item PerlInterpMax
Max number of running Perl interpreters
=item PerlInterpMaxSpare
Max number of spare Perl interpreters
=item PerlInterpMinSpare
Min number of spare Perl interpreters
=item PerlInterpMaxRequests
Max number of requests per Perl interpreters
=back
