[Webdev] module question

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "exit" == exit  <exit at randomkeystrokes.com> writes:

    exit> Hi, i have a quick question about installing php and perl
    exit> modules for apache1.3.12. I am obiviously doing something
    exit> wrong but i dont know what , here's what im doing:

-snip-

    exit> This also works great, and php test files also work. BUT
    exit> here is where my problem is: 'httpd -l' lists mod_php4.c in
    exit> the output list of installed modules. But now my previous
    exit> installation of perl and its traces from the httpd binary
    exit> have been lost. Is there something i can do to tell the php
    exit> installation not to overwrite the perl installation ? or
    exit> what am i doing wrong ?? ie i want perl and php supported in
    exit> the same httpd binary but at the moment it only lets me do
    exit> one or the other.
    exit> Sorry bout the lenght, Thanks

It looks like you built both the mod_perl and mod_php4 modules
statically; when you installed mod_perl, you got an httpd binary with
mod_perl built into it; you then installed mod_php4, which overwrote
your existing mod_perl-containing httpd with one containing mod_php4
on its own.  Both the PHP and Perl builds re-link httpd, incorporating
their own code.

When I built mod_perl and mod_php4, I made them both DSO, so that I
can load them dynamically, but apparently mod_perl has problems when
used as a DSO and the author os not interesting in fixing those
problems because he does not like DSO.

One possible soltion would be to build a DSO httpd with mod_perl
linked in, and then build mod_php4 as a module, which you can load
using the LoadModule directive (not sure about the name).

A better solution would be to build an httpd with both of them built
in; you should be able to do this by keeping your php and mod_perl
builds and rebuilding Apache, modifying the Configuration file to add
libphp4.a and libperl.a from the build trees at link time; no DSO
required (not sure about those library names either).

Paul.

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