I tried to the package manager to install mod_perl and it offers me
mod_perl-1.99-16.4
I thought that Apache 2 required MP2. Am I mistaken? I am not sure
what the best route to take is, even my httpd server version is a bit
old. Do I throw out the httpd server and start from scratch, possibly
confusing my package manager? Any thoughts?
mod_perl 1.99 was the testing/pre-release version. So you've kind-of got
mp2.
Unfortunately there were major changes fairly late on in the pre-release
process so the version RedHat ship with RHEL4 isn't compatible with the
final release of mp2.
RHEL5 is out and from memory it has a proper version of MP2 (somebody like
to confirm whether you can just upgrade from 4 to 5?)
Alternatively you'll have to compile from source. If you are compiling from
source, then many people on here will suggest that for best performance you
really need to compile a separate version of perl itself as the Redhat is
multi-thread by default and offers relatively poor performance.
Carl
