On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Rob Allen wrote:
Still having newbie troubles with IndigoPerl. It all
installed correctly and the service is up and running. I
can start/stop Apache consistently with no troubles.
There are no errors reported in the error log.
BUT...
Apache is sucking up 90-95% of my CPU pretty consistently,
and when I make a request (http://localhost...) including
trying to run PerlConsole, it hangs. No error message, no
404 Page Not Found, nothing. It just hangs and sucks CPU
cycles until I shut down Apache.
Running on Win XP.
Any advice? (Please spare me the "get off Windows"
advice, though. I don't have a choice.)
These errors are hard to track down, but if it's
a problem with mod_perl, unfortunately the answer
you'll get is to upgrade - the latest IndigoPerl
was released on Feb 27th, 2005, and the earliest
mod_perl-2 release that incorporated
a major rename of modules was on Apr 14th, 2005
(and since then, there's been a number of bug fixes).
I'd suggest, if you want to use mod_perl, not to
start with the mod_perl version that comes with
IndigoPerl, as there's been many incompatible
changes since then. Instead, try installing:
- the latest ActivePerl 8xx build (currently 817) from
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
- the latest Apache/2.2.x (currently 2.2.2) from
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Using the latest ActivePerl is important for dealing
with some thread-related bugs that were present in
earlier Perl versions. Apache/2.2 also contains
some improvements over the Apache/2.0.48 that comes with
IndigoPerl. Both ActivePerl and Apache are .msi
installs - for later convenience, if it doesn't
affect anything else, it might be better to install
them into a location that doesn't have spaces
in the directory name (eg, C:\Perl and C:\Apache2).
Once you have these installed, mod_perl can be installed
via (all on one line)
C:\> ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/mod_perl-2.2.ppd
This will run a post-install script to install the
mod_perl.so Apache module - this should go in, eg,
C:\Apache2\modules.
You can then test out the installation as described at
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/config.html
--
best regards,
Randy Kobes
