I've tried a whole lot of things to get a simple product called "yabb Gold SP1" (Yet Another Bulletin Board, available at
http://www.yabbforum.com/downloads.php?file=./downloads/Y1Gold_SP1.1_pl.zip) working with modperl-2, and apache on Win32. Yabb is a basic forum/bulletin board system that uses textfiles for storage, so no database is required. Try number 1: apache_2.0.43-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi, ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-MSWin32-x86.msi and mod_perl2 (ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/Apache2.tar.gz) No luck. The script simply hangs. All amount of debugging showed that it hangs when it does the first jump into a subroutine &LoadCookies(); in the code. It never even reaches the sub. All amounts of debugging the 'require's etc turned out fine, no problems there. The first jump to a sub, defined in an external file seemed to kill apache. The apache child actually dies. Attempt number 2: Using Randy's huge perl-5.8-win32-bin.tar.gz default extract, and install. At least the script runs partially (I get some output) but the apache slave still dies somewhere near the end of processing the cgi. The relevant httpd.conf section I added everytime was: <Location /yabb> PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry Options +ExecCGI PerlOptions +ParseHeaders </Location> I've also tried these tests with ModPerl::PerlRun, to even worse effect. I've been able to use HTML::Mason quite brilliantly but I really need yabb for a current project. I'm just about to give up on mod_perl and apache on win32 as being too unstable for this project, and I'm not interested in trying apache 1.3.x on win32 due to the threading issues. If something like fastcgi was available for apache2 (yet) I'd have used that in the meantime just to get this CGI script's performance going. Has anyone else tried any large-ish CGI scripts under apache2-win32 and modperl and gotten good results? If you have, I'd love to hear about it, even if just to keep my spirits up. :) Yabb, is the first rather complex CGI I've tried under mod_perl and the results look grim. Final question to the list: Has anyone else noticed the extraordinary startup times for apache2 when mod_perl is used, and you have a couple of handlers defined? Roelf Diedericks Internet Architect I-Net Bridge (Pty) Ltd. Johannesburg South Africa w) +27-11-2800600 h) +27-11-4862454 e) roelfd at inet.co.za
