I have gone ahead and moved the script entirely over to mod perl using
apache::registry and seting PerlWarn to on. I have repaired the initial
errors and problems that occured and am glad to say that I have my first
mod_perl script totally up and running. I have not had any errors as of
lately(fingers crossed). Everything seems to be running fine.
Thanks
John michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie having problems
> > John Michael wrote:
> > I am attempting first to ge them to run correctly under.
> > Apache::PerlRum
>
> Be careful of PerlRum! It will give you a wicked hangover!
>
> PerlRun is a quick way to port dirty scripts that you can't take the
> time to fix. It's the slowest way to run anything in mod_perl, but if
> your script uses lots of globals, imports functions all over the place,
> etc. you may have no choice.
>
> > I had a routine in the beginning of the program to initialze my variable
hash and query param like so:
> > ###### initialize globals ######################
> > foreach (keys %VAR){$VAR{$_} = "";}
> >
> > I did this so that these variables would not propogate to other
instances of the script.
> > This was causing the error.
> >
> > I removed it and added a this small sub:
> > sub clean_up {
> > undef %VAR;
> > Apache::exit();
> > }
> >
> > Is this the correct way to do this or even necessary?
>
> It should not be necessary. Unless you have delcared these to be in a
> separate package, PerlRun will clean them up after every request. Are
> you declaring a package in your script?
>
> > The Apache::exit() function is still causing an error, but the script
runs and works but is evidently not exiting gracefully.
>
> Why are you needing to exit? Maybe this is something that you can
> avoid, and improve performance.
>
> > Also, I am running the script in an eval{ } block in order to trap
errors in the $@ variable.
> > IS this ok practice in mod-perl?
>
> The entire script is in an eval block? You can do that, but if all you
> want is a decent page when something fails, just put up your nice page
> and set it up as the SERVER ERROR page in httpd.conf.
>
> > The scripts run, but sometimes through server errors.
> > I am getting the following errors.
> >
> > [Tue Oct 23 06:57:27 2001] [error] PerlRun: `Not a CODE reference at
> > /home/usr1/digital/membersurl/perl/content_manager/handler.pl line
> > 57.'
> >
> > [Tue Oct 23 06:57:27 2001] [error] Can't locate object method "uri"
> > via package "Apache::PerlRun" at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Apache/PerlRun.pm line 212.
>
> Things like this are usually the result of using libraries that don't
> declare package names. Do you pull in a bunch of functions with
> something like 'use mylib.pl' with no package names declared in
> mylib.pl? There is more discussion about this in the guide. In fact,
> all of this is in the guide.
>
> - Perrin
