On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Roelf Diedericks wrote: > 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.
Others have also noticed this problem - it seems to be with some threading stuff in 5.6.1 that is improved in 5.8. > > 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. Any error messages when it dies? Can you track down where it dies? > > 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. mod_perl-2 is still in the development stage. To try to track the problem down ... - does this work as an ordinary cgi script satisfactorily? - does it 'use strict' and 'use warnings'? - is it known to work on mod_perl-2/Apache-2 on linux? -- best regards, randy kobes
