=head1 NAME
Installing mod_perl 2.0
=head1 Description
This chapter provides an in-depth mod_perl 2.0 installation coverage.
=head1 Prerequisites
Before building mod_perl 2.0 you need to have its prerequisites
installed. If you don't have them, download and install them first,
using the information in the following sections. Otherwise proceed
directly to the mod_perl building instructions.
The mod_perl 2.0 prerequisites are:
=over
=item * Apache
Apache 2.0 is required. mod_perl 2.0 B<does not> work with Apache 1.3.
L<Dynamic|/MP_USE_DSO> (DSO) mod_perl build requires Apache 2.0.47 or
higher. L<Static|/MP_USE_STATIC> build requires Apache 2.0.51 or
higher.
=item * Perl
=over
=item Prefork MPM
Requires at least Perl version 5.6.1.
You don't need to have threads-support enabled in Perl. If you do have
it, it B<must> be I<ithreads> and not I<5005threads>! If you have:
% perl5.8.0 -V:use5005threads
use5005threads='define';
you must rebuild Perl without threads enabled or with
C<-Dusethreads>. Remember that threads-support slows things down and
on some platforms it's unstable (e.g., FreeBSD), so don't enable it
unless you really need it.
=item 64 bit Linux
If while running C<make test> while building mod_perl 2 you get an error like
this:
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a(op.o): \
relocation R_X86_64_32S against `PL_sv_yes' can not be used when making a shared \
object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a: could not read symbols: Bad \
value
You're likely on 64 bit Linux and will need to build Perl for that platform.
You can do so by running Perl's C<Configure> with the C<$CFLAGS> environment
variable and the C<-A> and C<ccflags> options. So if you normally build Perl
with:
% ./Configure -des
You would instead configure with:
% CFLAGS='-m64 -mtune=nocona' ./Configure -des -A ccflags=-fPIC
=item Threaded MPMs
Require at least Perl version 5.8.0 with ithreads support
built-in. That means that it should report:
% perl5.8.0 -V:useithreads -V:usemultiplicity
useithreads='define';
usemultiplicity='define';
If that's not what you see rebuild Perl with C<-Dusethreads>.
=item Static prefork build
Perl with ithreads support version 5.6.1 or higher
Perl without ithreads support version 5.8.2 or higher
=item Static non-prefork build
Perl with ithreads support version 5.8.0 or higher
=item threads.pm
If you want to run applications that take benefit of Perl's
I<threads.pm> Perl version 5.8.1 or higher w/ithreads enabled is
required. Perl 5.8.0's I<threads.pm> doesn't work with mod_perl 2.0.
=back
=item * CPAN Perl Modules
The mod_perl 2.0 test suite has several requirements on its own. If
you don't satisfy them, the tests depending on these requirements will
be skipped, which is OK, but you won't get to run these tests and
potential problems, which may exhibit themselves in your own code,
could be missed. We don't require them from C<Makefile.PL>, which
could have been automated the requirements installation, in order to
have less dependencies to get mod_perl 2.0 installed.
Also if your code uses any of these modules, chances are that you will
need to use at least the version numbers listed here.
=over
=item CGI.pm 3.11
=item Compress::Zlib 1.09
=back
Though the easiest way to satisfy all the dependencies is to install
C<Bundle::Apache2> available from CPAN.
=back
=head2 Downloading Stable Release Sources
If you are going to install mod_perl on a production site, you want to
use the officially released stable components. Since the latest stable
versions change all the time you should check for the latest stable
version at the listed below URLs:
=over
=item Perl
Download from: I<http://cpan.org/src/README.html>
This direct link which symlinks to the latest release should work too:
I<http://cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz>.
For the purpose of examples in this chapter we will use the package
named I<perl-5.8.x.tar.gz>, where I<x> should be replaced with the
real version number.
=item Apache
Download from: I<http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/>
For the purpose of examples in this chapter we will use the package
named I<httpd-2.x.xx.tar.gz>, where I<x.xx> should be replaced with
the real version number.
=back
=head2 Getting Bleeding Edge Sources
If you really know what you are doing you can use the cvs/svn versions
of the components. Chances are that you don't want to them on a
production site. You have been warned!
=over
=item Perl
The cutting edge version of Perl (aka bleadperl or bleedperl) is only
generally available through an rsync repository maintained by
ActiveState:
# (--delete to ensure a clean state)
% rsync -acvz --delete --force \
rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ perl-current
If you are re-building Perl after rsync-ing, make sure to cleanup first:
% make distclean
before running C<./Configure>.
You'll also want to install (at least) LWP if you want to fully test
mod_perl. You can install LWP with C<CPAN.pm> shell:
% perl -MCPAN -e 'install("LWP")'
For more details on bleadperl, see I<http://dev.perl.org/perl5/source.html>.
=item Apache
See L<Development mod_perl 2.0 Source
Distribution|download::source/Development_mod_perl_2_0_Source_Distribution>.
=back
=head2 Configuring and Installing Prerequisites
If you don't have the prerequisites installed yet, install them now.
=head3 Perl
% cd perl-5.8.x
% ./Configure -des
If you L<need the threads
support|docs::2.0::user::install::install/Prerequisites>, run:
% ./Configure -des -Dusethreads
Most likely you don't want perl-support for threads enabled, in which
case pass: C<-Uusethreads> instead of C<-Dusethreads>.
If you want to debug mod_perl segmentation faults, add the
following I<./Configure> options:
-Doptimize='-g' -Dusedevel
Now build it:
% make && make test && make install
=head3 Apache
You need to have Apache built and installed prior to building
mod_perl, only if you intend build a DSO mod_perl. If you intend to
build a statically linked Apache+mod_perl, you only need to have the
Apache source available (mod_perl will build and install Apache for
you), you should skip this step.
% cd httpd-2.x.xx
% ./configure --prefix=$HOME/httpd/prefork --with-mpm=prefork
% make && make install
Starting from 2.0.49, the Apache logging API escapes everything that
goes to F<error_log>, therefore if you're annoyed by this feature
during the development phase (as your error messages will be all
messed up) you can disable the escaping during the Apache build time:
% CFLAGS="-DAP_UNSAFE_ERROR_LOG_UNESCAPED" ./configure ...
Do B<not> use that CFLAGS in production unless you know what you are
doing.
=head1 Installing mod_perl from Binary Packages
As of this writing only the binaries for the Win32 platform are
available, kindly prepared and maintained by Randy Kobes.
See the documentation on L<Win32 binaries|docs::2.0::os::win32::install>
for details.
Some RPM packages can be found using rpmfind services, e.g.:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mod_perl&submit=Search+...
However if you have problems using them, you have to contact those who
have created them.
=head1 Installing mod_perl from Source
Building from source is the best option, because it ensures a binary
compatibility with Apache and Perl. However it's possible that your
distribution provides a solid binary mod_perl 2.0 package.
For Win32 specific details, see the documentation on
L<Win32 installation|docs::2.0::os::win32::install>.
=head2 Downloading the mod_perl Source
First download the mod_perl source.
=over
=item Stable Release
Download from I<http://perl.apache.org/download/> or your favorite
CPAN mirror.
This direct link which symlinks to the latest release should work too:
I<http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz>.
For the purpose of examples in this chapter we will use the package
named I<mod_perl-2.x.x.tar.gz>, where I<x.x> should be replaced with
the real version number.
Open the package with:
% tar -xvzf mod_perl-2.x.x.tar.gz
or an equivalent command.
=item Development Version
See L<Development mod_perl 2.0 Source
Distribution|download::source/Development_mod_perl_2_0_Source_Distribution>.
=back
=head2 Configuring mod_perl
To build mod_perl, you B<must> also use the same compiler that Perl
was built with. You can find that out by running C<perl -V> and
looking at the C<Compiler:> section.
Like any other Perl module, mod_perl is configured via the
I<Makefile.PL> file, but requires one or more configuration options:
% cd modperl-2.x.x
% perl Makefile.PL <options>
where I<options> is an optional list of key/value pairs. These
options can include all the usual options supported by
C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> (e.g., C<PREFIX>, C<LIB>, etc.).
The following sections give the details about all the available
options, but let's mention first an important one.
Configuration options are discussed in L<Build
Options|/mod_perl_Build_Options>.
=head3 Dynamic mod_perl
Before you proceed, make sure that Apache 2.0 has been built and
installed. mod_perl B<cannot> be built before that.
It seems that most users use pre-packaged Apache installation, most of
which tend to spread the Apache files across many directories
(i.e. not using --enable-layout=Apache, which puts all the files under
the same directory). If Apache 2.0 files are spread under different
directories, you need to use at least the C<L<MP_APXS|/MP_APXS>>
option, which should be set to a full path to the C<apxs>
executable. For example:
% perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/path/to/apxs
For example RedHat Linux system installs the C<httpd> binary, the
C<apxs> and C<apr-config> scripts (the latter two are needed to build
mod_perl) all in different locations, therefore they configure
mod_perl 2.0 as:
% perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/path/to/apxs \
MP_APR_CONFIG=/another/path/to/apr-config <other options>
However a correctly built Apache shouldn't require the
C<L<MP_APR_CONFIG|/MP_APR_CONFIG>> option, since
C<L<MP_APXS|/MP_APXS>> should provide the location of this script.
If however all Apache 2.0 files were installed under the same
directory, mod_perl 2.0's build only needs to know the path to that
directory, passed via the C<L<MP_AP_PREFIX|/MP_AP_PREFIX>> option:
% perl Makefile.PL MP_AP_PREFIX=$HOME/httpd/prefork
=head3 Static mod_perl
Before you proceed make sure that Apache 2.0 has been downloaded and
extracted. mod_perl B<cannot> be built before that.
If this is an svn checkout and not an official distribution tarball,
you need to first run:
% cd httpd-2.0
% ./buildconf
To enable statically linking mod_perl into Apache, use the
C<L<MP_USE_STATIC|/MP_USE_STATIC>> flag like this:
% perl Makefile.PL MP_USE_STATIC=1 \
MP_AP_PREFIX=$HOME/src/httpd-2.x \
MP_AP_CONFIGURE="--with-mpm=prefork"
C<L<MP_AP_PREFIX|/MP_AP_PREFIX>> B<must> point to an extracted Apache
2.0 source tree.
This will configure Apache by passing C<L<MP_AP_CONFIGURE|/MP_AP_CONFIGURE>>
to Apache's F<./configure> script.
Here is an example:
% cd ~/src
% tar -xvzf perl-5.8.x.tar.gz
% cd perl-5.8.x
% ./Configure -des
% make install
% cd ..
% tar -xvzf httpd-2.0.xx.tar.gz
% tar -xvzf mod_perl-2.x.x.tar.gz
% perl5.8.x Makefile.PL \
MP_USE_STATIC=1 \
MP_AP_PREFIX="$HOME/src/httpd-2.0.xx" \
MP_AP_CONFIGURE="--with-mpm=prefork"
% make
% make test
% make install
% ./httpd -l | grep perl
mod_perl.c
=head2 mod_perl Build Options
=head3 Boolean Build Options
The following options are boolean and can be set with C<MP_XXX=1> or
unset with C<MP_XXX=0>, where XXX is the name of the option.
=head4 MP_PROMPT_DEFAULT
Accept default values for all would-be prompts.
=head4 MP_GENERATE_XS
Generate XS code from parsed source headers in I<xs/tables/$httpd_version>.
Default is 1, set to 0 to disable.
=head4 MP_USE_DSO
Build mod_perl as a DSO (I<mod_perl.so>). This is the default.
=head4 MP_USE_STATIC
Build static mod_perl (I<mod_perl.a>).
=head4 MP_STATIC_EXTS
Build C<Apache2::*.xs> as static extensions.
=head4 MP_USE_GTOP
Link with I<libgtop> and enable I<libgtop> reporting.
=head4 MP_COMPAT_1X
C<MP_COMPAT_1X=1> or a lack of it enables several mod_perl 1.0
back-compatibility features, which are deprecated in mod_perl
2.0. It's enabled by default, but can be disabled with
C<MP_COMPAT_1X=0> during the build process.
When this option is disabled, the following things will happen:
=over
=item *
Deprecated special variable, C<$Apache2::__T> won't be available. Use
C<${^TAINT}> instead.
=item *
I<$ServerRoot> and I<$ServerRoot/lib/perl> won't be appended to
C<@INC>. Instead use:
PerlSwitches -I/path/to/server -I/path/to/server/lib/perl
in I<httpd.conf> or:
use Apache2::ServerUtil ();
use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile);
push @INC, catfile Apache2::ServerUtil::server_root, "";
push @INC, catfile Apache2::ServerUtil::server_root, "lib/perl";
in I<startup.pl>.
=item *
The following deprecated configuration directives won't be recognized
by Apache:
PerlSendHeader
PerlSetupEnv
PerlHandler
PerlTaintCheck
PerlWarn
Use L<their 2.0
equivalents|docs::2.0::user::porting::compat/Configuration_Files_Porting>
instead.
=back
=head4 MP_DEBUG
Turn on debugging (C<-g -lperld>) and tracing.
=head4 MP_MAINTAINER
Enable maintainer compile mode, which sets C<MP_DEBUG=1> and adds the
following C<gcc> flags:
-DAP_DEBUG -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
-Wmissing-declarations \
If gcc version 3.3.2+ is found, not compiling on OpenBSD,
and C<-Wdeclaration-after-statement> is
not already part of the C<gcc> flags add it.
To use this mode Apache must be build with
C<--enable-maintainer-mode>.
=head4 MP_TRACE
Enable tracing
=head3 Non-Boolean Build Options
set the non-boolean options with MP_XXX=value.
=head4 MP_APXS
Path to C<apxs>. For example if you've installed Apache 2.0 under
I</home/httpd/httpd-2.0> as DSO, the default location would be
I</home/httpd/httpd-2.0/bin/apxs>.
=head4 MP_AP_CONFIGURE
The command-line arguments to pass to httpd's configure script.
=head4 MP_AP_PREFIX
Apache installation prefix, under which the I<include/> directory with
Apache C header files can be found. For example if you've installed
Apache 2.0 in directory I<\Apache2> on Win32, you should use:
MP_AP_PREFIX=\Apache2
If Apache is not installed yet, you can point to the Apache 2.0 source
directory, but only after you've built or configured Apache in it. For
example:
MP_AP_PREFIX=/home/stas/apache.org/httpd-2.0
Though in this case C<make test> won't automatically find C<httpd>,
therefore you should run C<t/TEST> instead and pass the location of
C<apxs> or C<httpd>, e.g.:
% t/TEST -apxs /home/stas/httpd/prefork/bin/apxs
or
% t/TEST -httpd /home/stas/httpd/prefork/bin/httpd
=head4 MP_AP_DESTDIR
This option exists to make the lives of package maintainers easier. If
you aren't a package manager you should not need to use this option.
Apache installation destination directory. This path will be prefixed
to the installation paths for all Apache-specific files during C<make
install>. For instance, if Apache modules are normally installed into
I</path/to/httpd-2.0/modules/> and C<MP_AP_DESTDIR> is set to
I</tmp/foo>, the I<mod_perl.so> will be installed in:
/tmp/foo/path/to/httpd-2.0/modules/mod_perl.so
=head4 MP_APR_CONFIG
If APR wasn't installed under the same file tree as httpd, you may
need to tell the build process where it can find the executable
C<apr-config>, which can then be used to figure out where the apr and
aprutil I<include/> and I<lib/> directories can be found.
=head4 MP_CCOPTS
Add to compiler flags, e.g.:
MP_CCOPTS=-Werror
(Notice that C<-Werror> will work only with the Perl version 5.7 and
higher.)
=head4 MP_OPTIONS_FILE
Read build options from given file. e.g.:
MP_OPTIONS_FILE=~/.my_mod_perl2_opts
=head4 MP_APR_LIB
On Win32, in order to build the APR and APR::* modules so as to
be independent of mod_perl.so, a static library is first built
containing the needed functions these modules link into. The option
MP_APR_LIB=aprext
specifies the name that this library has. The default used
is C<aprext>. This option has no effect on platforms other than
Win32, as they use a different mechanism to accomplish the
decoupling of APR and APR::* from mod_perl.so.
=head3 mod_perl-specific Compiler Options
=head4 -DMP_IOBUFSIZE
Change the default mod_perl's 8K IO buffer size, e.g. to 16K:
MP_CCOPTS=-DMP_IOBUFSIZE=16384
=head3 mod_perl Options File
Options can also be specified in the file I<makepl_args.mod_perl2> or
I<.makepl_args.mod_perl2>. The file can be placed under C<$ENV{HOME}>,
the root of the source package or its parent directory. So if you
unpack the mod_perl source into I</tmp/mod_perl-2.x/> and your home is
I</home/foo/>, the file will be searched in:
/tmp/mod_perl-2.x/makepl_args.mod_perl2
/tmp/makepl_args.mod_perl2
/home/foo/makepl_args.mod_perl2
/tmp/mod_perl-2.x/.makepl_args.mod_perl2
/tmp/.makepl_args.mod_perl2
/home/foo/.makepl_args.mod_perl2
If the file specified in C<MP_OPTIONS_FILE> is found the
I<makepl_args.mod_perl2> will be ignored.
Options specified on the command line override those from
I<makepl_args.mod_perl2> and those from C<MP_OPTIONS_FILE>.
If your terminal supports colored text you may want to set the
environment variable C<APACHE_TEST_COLOR> to 1 to enable the colored
tracing which makes it easier to tell the reported errors and
warnings, from the rest of the notifications.
=head2 Re-using Configure Options
Since mod_perl remembers what build options were used to build it if
first place, you can use this knowledge to rebuild itself using the
same options. Simply C<chdir(1)> to the mod_perl source directory and
run:
% cd modperl-2.x.
% perl -MApache2::Build -e rebuild
=head2 Compiling mod_perl
Next stage is to build mod_perl:
% make
=head2 Testing mod_perl
When mod_perl has been built, it's very important to test that
everything works on your machine:
% make test
If something goes wrong with the test phase and want to figure out how
to run individual tests and pass various options to the test suite,
see the corresponding sections of L<the bug reporting
guidelines|docs::2.0::user::help::help/_C_make_test___Failures> or
the L<Apache::Test
Framework|docs::general::testing::testing/Running_Tests> tutorial.
=head2 Installing mod_perl
Once the test suite has passed, it's a time to install mod_perl.
% make install
If you install mod_perl system wide, you probably need to become
I<root> prior to doing the installation:
% su
# make install
=head1 If Something Goes Wrong
If something goes wrong during the installation, try to repeat the
installation process from scratch, while verifying all the steps with
this document.
If the problem persists L<report the
problem|docs::2.0::user::help::help/Reporting_Problems>.
=head1 Maintainers
Maintainer is the person(s) you should contact with updates,
corrections and patches.
=over
=item *
Stas Bekman [http://stason.org/]
=back
=head1 Authors
=over
=item *
Stas Bekman [http://stason.org/]
=item *
Doug MacEachern E<lt>dougm (at) covalent.netE<gt>
=back
Only the major authors are listed above. For contributors see the
Changes file.
=cut