[TriLUG] Apache with mod_perl

[Rick DeNatale]

On 12/13/05, Corey <ohkeepah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am setting up a testing web server on an Averatec 3270 running
> Ubuntu 5.04and Apache 2.  The goal is to use it to test perl scripts
> (just learning) as
> well as php and mysql.  So far I have installed apache, php, mod_perl and
> mysql through apt-get.  The testphp.php script works fine as well as mysql
> but I don't know how to configure apache to run perl scripts.  I don't have
> a cgi bin, or if one is there I don't know where it is.  Could anyone
> instruct me what I would have to do in apache2.conf to execute .pl scripts
> and where i need to put a cgi directory?  http://localhost is directed to
> /var/www/.
> corey

I don't have mod-perl installed on my Ubuntu system, but...

Debian defines a structure for the configuration of apache2 which
allows for easy control of both apache modules and sites (e.g. virtual
servers).

Being a debian based distro, it's likely that the mod-perl package
will create the configuration files /etc/apache2/mods-available

So look for perl.conf and/or perl.load in these directories. There are
commands a2enmod and a2dismod which create and destroy links to these
files in the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled directory where the main
apache2 configuratin file directs httpd to look for them when httpd is
(re)started.

Similarly there are /etc/apache2/sites-available,
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled directories and a2ensite and a2dissite
commands to control configurations of virtual host configurations.

On a debian-based system using apache2 it's really advisable to align
your configuratin with this structure.

For more info see /etc/apache2/README

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