Problem solved.
Jay J pointed out to me in private email that this had probably been
fixed in the latest development snapshot, and indeed it has.
See http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/archive/modperl/1999-07/msg01080.phtml
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm getting the error "<Perl> not allowed here" when I try to use Perl
>sections in an .htaccess file under mod_perl 1.21. The same setup
>works fine under mod_perl 1.18 (my frontend server).
>
>The .htaccess is simple, it's just got a <Perl> section that's about 10
>lines long, not nested inside anything else.
>
>I'm positive that the PerlSections hook is enabled, because
>Apache::Status says so, and because if I misspell the directive I get a
>different error ("Invalid command '<Peerl>', perhaps mis-spelled or
>defined by a module not included in the server configuration").
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