RE: Configuring mod_perl on Debian

["Jeff A" <jeff@bircholme.com>]

> From: Andrew McNaughton [mailto:andrew@scoop.co.nz] 
> Sent: 27 May 2002 21:02
> To: Ian D. Stewart
...
> You miss most of the advantage of debian's package management 
> if you start building core components independently.  Debian 
> looks after you pretty well, but it's a bit of an all or 
> nothing affair.  ie it's worth a little effort to stick 
> with the debian packages if you can.

I agree with Andrew - getting Apache, Mod_SSL, PHP4 and mod_perl
with PHP4/MySQL and mod_perl/mySQL all co-operating is a relative 
doddle with Debian packaging. Especially in view of the volume of 
the 'I cant build...' comments on the mod_perl mailing lists.

We usually wget the .debs we want installed as a set, into a dir
e.g. /usr/local/deb/<build date> and then do a 
  dpkg -i *.deb
  apt-get check

FYI, these are SOME of the installed packages on our Dev server 
yes - it's a bit messy, but it's potato flavoured, with woody 
extras, and we don't seem to have any issues.
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apache         1.3.23-1    Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
apache-common  1.3.23-1    Support files for all Apache webservers
libapache-mod-ssl 2.8.7-1  Strong cryptography (HTTPS support) 
libssl0.9.6    0.9.6c-1    SSL shared libraries

mysql-client   3.23.46-2   mysql database client binaries
mysql-common   3.23.46-2   mysql database common files
libmysqlclient 3.23.38-2   mysql database client library

perl           5.6.1-7     Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and 
libperl5.6     5.6.1-7     Shared Perl library.

libapache-dbi-perl 0.88-5  Connect apache server to database via 
libapache-mod-perl 1.26-2  Integration of perl with the Apache web
libapache-reload-perl 0.07-1  Reload changed modules in a mod_perl
libapache-request-perl 0.33-1 Generic Apache Request Library
libapache-session-perl 1.54-1 Perl modules for keeping persistent 
libapache-ssi-perl 2.16-1  perl Apache::SSI - Implement Server Side
libdbd-mysql-perl 1.2216-2 mySQL database interface for Perl
libdbi-perl    1.21-2      The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce

php4           4.1.2-1     A server-side, HTML-embedded scripting
php4-mysql     4.1.2-1     MySQL module for php4
php4-pear      4.1.2-1     PEAR - PHP Extension Application Reposit
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