I am trying to install mod_perl on my Mac OS 10.3. But things aren't going so well.
It all began when I downloaded the source code for mod_perl (1.3) and apache (1.3.37). I began the process of building mod_perl [as per instructions below, 1]. Things appeared to work fine until I ran 'make test'. Make reported the following error: server failed to start! (please examine t/logs/error_log) at t/TEST line 95. make: *** [run_tests] Error 22 Seeing this, I went to the error_log. It showed this error: [Tue Jul 3 23:17:49 2007] [crit] (48)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 8529 Based on this, my guess was that the httpd was having trouble starting up and being put in a state that could serve html docs. So I began to tinker around to try to find out why this might be. To see how httpd (1.3.37) faired at being manually started, I ran the following command: root# ./httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf Syntax error on line 207 of /etc/httpd/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'LoadModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Now the thing about this, is that its uses the configure file in /etc/httpd/ and not the configure file that came with the tarball (as I said, I was just tinkering about). Now, the thing about this error message is that it indicates that httpd couldn't read the configuration file, in particular the LoadModule directive. I then looked at the modules that were compiled into this httpd. root# ./httpd -l It reported a list of modules, but not mod_so.c - which is apparently the module that reads the LoadModule directive. So my question - is mod_so really needed or has it no longer used in recent versions of httpd? Is there a way to build mod_perl so that the httpd will include mod_so? Most importantly though - would this explain why 'make test' failed when I was installing mod_perl? references 1. http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/getwet.html#Installing_mod_perl_in_Thr ee_Steps
