On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> OK, can you describe the problem a little more clearly? The "Testing user
> file" bit doesn't seem to come from anywhere - any ideas where it's coming
> from???
I had assumed it was coming from Apache, but your question made me
suspicious. After a little digging, I discovered it's coming from a
userv script that is used to restart development apache daemons so all us
lowly developers don't need to have su priveleges ;). I won't bother you with
the details, except to say it didn't permit adding config directives.
Having fixed that, the server restarts fine, which means the new
directives are getting read properly, but when I try to hit that
development vhost with my browser the child segfaults. Which is where I'm
stuck now.
> > > > Details:
> > > >
> > > > mod_perl version used is 1.23
> > >
> > > There have been some fairly serious config directives bugs fixed since
> > > then. I suggest an upgrade.
> >
> > I'll look into it, but my sysadmins are worried that upgrading is going to
> > break, in strange and obscure ways, the multiple live commercial sites we
> > have running on our servers. Are there any resources available I might be
> > able to use to reassure them?
>
> No! They have every right to be concerned. Don't try this stuff on a live
> server, seriously. I do it on axkit.org (at least I did it on axkit.org when
> it was live), but there was never anything business critical on there except
> documentation.
Don't worry, it's all happening on an isolated development server, I was
just wondering whether there are any resources that indicate what things
might break when upgrading from 1.23 to 1.24. But if I can't get this
working soon time pressure will force me to use the functional but much
less elegant PerlSetVar method, and an upgrade will be irrelevant.
Any advice (from anyone) on how to fix the segfault problem would still be
appreciated, though.
Many thanks to all for the advice I've received already.
-mike
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