Hello,

this is my first post to the mod_perl mailing list. I have been using
mod_perl for about a week now. I do however have quite a few years
Perl scripting experience.

What I am trying to do is: Make one httpd.conf that will be suitable
for all of our servers. We have about 20 (and growing) apache servers.
Their role can be terermined from their hostname, so mod_perl's <Perl>
sections seem especially well suited to do this.

Currently I have the following section in my httpd.conf:

 526  <Perl>
  527
  528  # We get the hostname, and use it to:
  529  # generate a PID file name
  530  # generate log file names
  531  # include a hostname dependent include file
  532
  533          use Sys::Hostname;
  534          use Apache2::ServerRec;
  535          use Apache2::ServerUtil;
  536          use Switch;
  537          my $VFL_hostname = hostname();
  538          my $VFL_servertype = "";
  539          $ServerName = $VFL_hostname;
  540
  541          $PidFile = "logs/$ServerName.pid";
  542          $ServerName .= ".swisptt.ch";
  543          print STDERR "ServerName = $ServerName\n";
  544
  545          switch ($VFL_hostname) {
  546                  case "mstvflfewprp2v" {
  547                          $VFL_servertype = "sony" ;
  548                  }
  549                  case  /ms.vflfe(.*).v/  {
  550                          $VFL_servertype = $1;
  551                  }
  552                  else {
  553                          $VFL_servertype = "default";
  554                  }
  555          }
  556
  557          my $VFL_include = "conf/$VFL_servertype.inc"  ;
  558          print STDERR "Including $VFL_include\n" ;
  559          $Include = $VFL_include  ;
  560
  561          $CustomLog = "logs/$VFL_hostname/access_log vfl" ;
  562          $ErrorLog = "logs/$VFL_hostname/error_log" ;
  563
  564          my $VFL_serverroot = Apache2::ServerUtil::server_root() ;
  565
  566          unless ( -d "$VFL_serverroot/logs/$VFL_hostname" ) {
  567                  mkdir "$VFL_serverroot/logs/$VFL_hostname", 0755;
  568                  }
  569
  570  </Perl>

My problem: When I run apachectl test I get the following error:

String found where operator expected at
/opt/portal/webserver/conf/httpd.conf line 546, near "case
"mstvflfewprp2v""
       (Do you need to predeclare case?)
Syntax error on line 527 of /opt/portal/webserver/conf/httpd.conf:
syntax error at /opt/portal/webserver/conf/httpd.conf line 545, near ") {"\n

And after staring at my code for hours I still can't find out what
might be the syntas errors...

- Perl version used is 5.8.5. I checked the contents of the @INC
variable (by adding a print STDERR @INC" statement in a seperate perl
section, and found out that on of the directories searched does
contains the switch.pm module.

I alos tested this piece of code by puting it in a small perl script,
and there it compiles just fine. But as part of a Perl section it does
not work. Why?

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