{"id":146,"date":"2004-10-30T00:02:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/mod_perl-or-why-linux-can-be-so-difficult\/"},"modified":"2004-10-30T00:02:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T05:02:26","slug":"mod_perl-or-why-linux-can-be-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/30\/mod_perl-or-why-linux-can-be-so-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"mod_perl or: Why Linux Can Be So Difficult."},"content":{"rendered":"

\nFirst I need to say that I’m writing this all for the second time. Ecto<\/a> (which I generally love) crashed after I tried to insert a link and I lost about 500 words. Nice.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn continuing with my previously mentioned desire to research wiki’s I came across and started to install Twiki<\/a>, the Wiki I found to be the best tool for my needs and in my opinion, the most powerful wiki currently available. The install took two evenings–much longer than the MediaWiki<\/a> install took, but that’s pretty typical for perl applications, they’re often more powerful and almost always more difficult than their PHP counterparts to install.\n<\/p>\n

\nEverything went fairly well with the install and I was happy with it until I tried to edit an entry. I discovered that anything over about 500 characters was truncated when I saved the entry. After much <\/em>searching, I found this page<\/a> which suggests it’s a mod_perl problem. “Fine, I’ll just upgrade mod_perl” I said to myself. After a quick search I found an RPM for mod_perl-1.99_11-0. Attempting to install it returned three dependency errors. Not totally unexpected, but in order to lessen the amount of dependencies, I looked for and found an older version (mod_perl-1.99_09-10) which pleasantly surprised me by only returning one dependency error:\n<\/p>\n

\nerror: Failed dependencies:
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httpd-mmn = 20020903 is needed by mod_perl-1.99_09-10\n<\/p>\n

\nhttpd-mmn didn’t look or sound familiar to me. A bit of Googling revealed that it has something to do with the version of Apache that’s installed. Great. I checked my version and found I’m using Apache 2.0.40. Upgrading Apache isn’t simple, especially running Plesk<\/a> which requires a Plesk friendly Apache RPM. Usually that’s not a problem since they can be found on AtomicRocketTurtle’s<\/a> site. I tried to do a YUM<\/a> upgrade using his repository only to find he’s blocked EV1servers<\/a> because he doesn’t like the way they handled the SCO \/ Linux<\/a> issues. Great, another minor setback, but I decided to just download his RPM’s directly using wget (even though he recommends against this) and go from there. So, 20 minutes later I had downloaded enough RPM’s to upgrade Plesk and hopefully Apache with it. All went well, the usually less-than-simple task of upgrading Plesk succeeded with only minor hitches. I went back to the folder with the mod_perl rpm and tried it. It failed. Same dependency. Sigh. From here I really don’t know what to do.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is why Linux is sometimes very frustrating to me. I’ve spent two evenings trying to install Twiki and another trying to make it work. Now I’m up at 1 in the morning at a dead end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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