[freeside-users] Installation help - FreeBSD, Apache2, mod_perl2

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Scott O'Neil wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>    I had this problem too. It turns out that Apache configuration lines
> should not end in semicolons. All that Perl habit for naught!
>
> E.g. where you say you have:
>
> Perlrequire "/usr/local/etc/freeside/handler.pl";
>
> in your Apache configs, try this instead:
>
> Perlrequire "/usr/local/etc/freeside/handler.pl"

That's it!  I now have other errors, but I think I can work them out.  It 
seems like this thing really wants RT even though I told it not to build 
RT in the Makefile.

My line with the semicolon came from someone's example somewhere (docs or 
wiki).

There should be a "mod_perl and mod_perl2 for n00bs" in the wiki.  If 
people had to go through these hoops with php, it would be as popular 
as... mod_perl is. :)

Meaning, you need not be a php expert to install php and download a php 
webapp.  mod_perl is so... perl... that you can't really just jump in and 
go.

Charles

> Might want to make sure a semicolon didn't end up anywhere else too.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Scott
>
> On 1/26/07, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I guess my first question is "should Freeside work with
>> Apache2/mod_perl2"?
>> 
>> If so, then I should be pretty close.  I've got all the perl modules
>> installed,
>> and actually already have another mod_perl application running (otrs.org)
>> with
>> no problems.  I'm running another apache just for Freeside (as the docs
>> recommended).  When I start up apache, it bails with this fairly confusing
>> error:
>> 
>> [Fri Jan 26 01:07:14 2007] [error] Can't locate ; in @INC (@INC contains:
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 . /usr/local)
>> at
>> (eval 130) line 1.\n
>> [Fri Jan 26 01:07:14 2007] [error] Can't load Perl file: ; for server
>> foo.foo.net:444, exiting...
>> 
>> It's odd that apache is nulling out the path to handler.pl, it is set
>> correctly:
>> 
>> Perlrequire "/usr/local/etc/freeside/handler.pl";
>> 
>> At this point I'm not even sure what direction to go in.  Earlier in the
>> day I
>> was actually getting real errors - meaning the apache error log would
>> claim it
>> couldn't find "some_module.pm" and I'd track it down and install it.  Now
>> that
>> it's not complaining about that I have this mysterious error about not
>> finding
>> ";".
>> 
>> Some info:
>> 
>> FreeBSD 6.2
>> Apache 2.0.59
>> mod_perl2 2.0.2
>> Freeside 1.5.8
>> Mason 1.35
>> libapreq2 2.08
>> perl 5.8.8
>> postgres client/server 8.0.9
>> DBI 1.52
>> DBD-Pg 1.49
>> 
>> Followed the html install doc in the tarball with the exception of
>> disabling RT
>> as I only want to deal with one giant perl glob at a time.
>> 
>> FWIW, everything but Freeside was installed via FreeBSD ports.  If need
>> be, I
>> can provide a list of all perl modules installed, but it seems a bit long
>> for
>> the first email to this list... :)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Charles
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