Re: [Pas-dev] Re: mod_perl 2

[Justin B. <ju...@le...>]

Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>> Well, using the same approach as above, you could set the PAS_BASE:
> 
> 
> I did, but still it wouldn't start up.
> 
>> Thanks for giving it a shot.  It was useful to know that set env no 
>> longer
>> works in Apache 2.0/mod_perl.
> 
> 
> There is a compatibility option, but it's not the right way to go.

In the mod_perl-2.0 source directory, check out the file:

   src/docs/2.0/user/compat/compat.pod

The API has changed.  You might be able to run PAS under mod_perl-2.0 if you 
have both mod_perl-2.0 & mod_perl-1.x installed and then modify the startup.pl. 
  If you put:

	use Apache2;
	use Apache::compat;

in the BEGIN block, you might gain backwards compatibility w/ mod_perl-1.x.

Some other API from 1.x that is in PAS that's changed (that I've seen so far):

- Apache::Constants has been replaced by 3 modules: Apache::Const, APR::Const & 
ModPerl::Const.  They don't seem to be fully functional because whatever I 
change it to in Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler, it still doesn't work.

- "PerlHandler" was replaced with "PerlResponseHandler" (needed change in 
httpd.conf)

- CGI.pm is not compatible with mod_perl-2.0.  It requires Apache.pm. 
mod_perl-2.0 has moved that file to Apache2.pm.  So if you manually modify 
CGI.pm it should work.  But I'm hung up on the Apache::Constants thing.

- Apache::StatINC was replaced with Apache::Reload

UPDATE:

I just got Apache to start!!  In Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler, I changed the

   use Apache::Constants qw(:http :response);

line to

   use Apache::Const qw(:http :common);

Well it runs and blows up!  I think there's more incompatibility issues with 
CGI.pm.  I believe I just confirmed there is compatibility issues:

  register_cleanup() has been replaced with "APR::Pool::cleanup_register()"

And I started searching the web.  It says if you use Apache::compat, it should 
solve those compatibility issues.  Too bad my old version of mod_perl isn't 
installed....

Justin