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INSTALL
The installation process for Apache::ASP is geared towards those
with experience with Perl, Apache, and unix systems. For those
without this experience, please understand that the learning curve
can be significant. But what you have at the end will be a web site
running on superior open source software.
If installing onto a Windows operating system, please see the section
titled Win32 Install.
Need Help
Often, installing the mod_perl part of the Apache server
can be the hardest part. If this is the case for you,
check out the FAQ and SUPPORT sections for further help,
as well as the "Modern Linux Distributions" notes in this section.
Please also see the mod_perl site at http://perl.apache.org/
which one ought to give a good read before undertaking
a mod_perl project.
Download and CPAN Install
You may download the latest Apache::ASP from your nearest CPAN,
and also:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-ASP/
http://cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
As a Perl developer, you should make yourself familiar with
the CPAN.pm module, and how it may be used to install
Apache::ASP, and other related modules. The easiest way
to install Apache::ASP for the first time from Perl is to
fire up the CPAN shell like:
shell prompt> perl -MCPAN -e shell
... configure CPAN ...
... then upgrade to latest CPAN ...
cpan> install CPAN
...
cpan> install Bundle::Apache::ASP
Installing the Apache::ASP bundle will automatically install
all the modules Apache::ASP is dependent on as well as
Apache::ASP itself. If you have trouble installing the bundle,
then try installing the necessary modules one at a time:
cpan> install MLDBM
cpan> install MLDBM::Sync
cpan> install Digest::MD5 *** may not be needed for perl 5.8+ ***
cpan> install Apache::ASP
For extra/optional functionality in Apache::ASP 2.31 or greater, like
support for FormFill, XSLT, or SSI, you can install this bundle via CPAN:
cpan> install Bundle::Apache::ASP::Extra
Regular Perl Module Install
If not doing the CPAN install, download Apache::ASP and install it using
the make or nmake commands as shown below. Otherwise, just
copy ASP.pm to $PERLLIB/site/Apache
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
* use nmake for win32
Please note that you must first have the Apache Web Server
& mod_perl installed before using this module in a web server
environment. The offline mode for building static html at
./cgi/asp-perl may be used with just perl.
Modern Linux Distributions
If you have a modern Linux distribution like CentOS or Ubuntu,
you will likely have the easiest path by using the repository tools to
automatically install mod_perl and Apache before installing Apache::ASP via CPAN.
For example for CentOS, this will install mod_perl into your apache httpd, the latter
likely being installed already by default on your server:
bash> sudo yum install mod_perl-devel.x86_64
For Ubuntu this would be done like this:
bash> sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2
Quick Start
Once you have successfully built the Apache Web Server with mod_perl,
copy the ./site/eg/ directory from the Apache::ASP installation
to your Apache document tree and try it out! You must put "AllowOverride All"
in your httpd.conf <Directory> config section to let the .htaccess file in the
./site/eg installation directory do its work. If you want a starter
config file for Apache::ASP, just look at the .htaccess file in the
./site/eg/ directory.
So, you might add this to your Apache httpd.conf file just to get
the scripts in ./site/eg working, where $DOCUMENT_ROOT represents
the DocumentRoot config for your apache server:
<Directory $DOCUMENT_ROOT/asp/eg >
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
To copy the entire site, including the examples, you might
do a raw directory copy as in:
shell> cp -rpd ./site $DOCUMENT_ROOT/asp
So you could then reference the Apache::ASP docs at /asp/ at your site,
and the examples at /asp/eg/ .
This is not a good production configuration, because it is insecure
with the FollowSymLinks, and tells Apache to look for .htaccess
which is bad for performance but it should be handy for getting
started with development.
You will know that Apache::ASP is working normally if you
can run the scripts in ./site/eg/ without any errors. Common
problems can be found in the FAQ section.
Build static Apache and mod_perl for Apache 1.3.x
For a quick build of apache, there is a script in the distribution at
./make_httpd/build_httpds.sh that can compile a statically linked
Apache with mod_ssl and mod_perl. Just drop the sources into the
make_httpd directory, configure the environments as appropriate,
and execute the script like this:
make_httpd> ./build_httpds.sh
You might also find helpful a couple items:
Stas's mod_perl guide install section
Apache Toolbox
People have been using Apache Toolbox to automate their
complex builds of Apache 1.3.x with great success.
Win32 / Windows Install
If you are on a Win32 platform, like WinNT or Windows 2000,
you can download the win32 binaries linked to from:
http://perl.apache.org/download/binaries.html#Win32
and install the latest perl-win32-bin-*.exe file.
Randy Kobes has graciously provided these, which include
compiled versions perl, mod_perl, apache, mod_ssl,
as well as all the modules required by Apache::ASP
and Apache::ASP itself.
After installing this distribution, in Apache2\conf\perl.conf
(pulled in via Apache2\conf\httpd.conf) there's directives that
have Apache::ASP handle files placed under the Apache2\asp\
directory. There should be a sample Apache::ASP script there,
printenv.html, accessed as http://127.0.0.1/asp/printenv.html
which, if working, will print out your environment variables.
WinME / 98 / 95 flock() workaround
For those on desktop Windows operation systems, Apache::ASP v2.25 and
later needs a special work around for the lack of flock() support
on these systems. Please add this to your Apache httpd.conf to
fix this problem after mod_perl is installed:
<Perl>
*CORE::GLOBAL::flock = sub { 1 };
</Perl>
PerlModule Apache::ASP
Please be sure to add this configuration before Apache::ASP is loaded
via PerlModule, or a PerlRequire statement.
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