Basic Help, RedHat

[Tom Weber]

New to this list, so I'm sure that this has been covered, but hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Hope this doesn't make you laugh too hard, being such a newbie. Don't know where to turn, but don't want to abandon this project.

I've been unsuccessful at trying to get mod_perl to work on RedHat Linux. I'm willing to write the code either in mod_perl v1 or v2, whichever I can get to work.

I'm attempting to use these pieces of software that comes straight from RedHat:
RedHat Linux O/S: 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp
Apache: 2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Perl:  v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

and have made two attempts at mod_perl:

mod_perl: 1.99_16: (the one that comes with RedHat).  I can't even get Apache::Cookie to load, and a simple: $r->args does not give me anything...... can't get $r->headers_out->add (or set) also errors.

and:
mod_perl: 2.0.2: I was totally unsuccessful at trying "make" this. This version failed terribly with "make test", even some tests %failed = 200% (Huh??). Even with lots of errors, I did install it, but only with partial success. The Apache::compat did not seem to work neither.


Was thinking about apache 2.2.2 with mod_perl: 2.0.2, but noticed someone had problems with that.


The part that is really frustrating was that someone built a combo apache/mod_perl for windows that installed easily, and I was able to prototype what I needed on there.

Thanks to anyone who can help,
Tom