Debian 4.0 Etch apache-perl "File does not exist: ... /server-info"

["David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

debian-user:

I have a Debian 4.0 Etch virtual machine and have installed apache-perl.  I
would like to be able to obtain server information by browsing to /server-info.
I believe I have uncommented the relevant lines in httpd.conf (and restarted
Apache):

    # Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
    #  http://servername/server-info (requires that mod_info.c be loaded).
    # Change the ".your_domain.com" to match your domain to enable.
    #
    <Location /server-info>
        SetHandler server-info
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
        Allow from 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
    </Location>

When I browse to http://vmdeb40.holgerdanske.com/server-info, I get an HTTP 404
error (not found) page.  /var/log/apache-perl/error.log says:

    [Sun Aug 31 14:22:30 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.10] File does not
exist: /home/dpchrist/apache.holgerdanske.com/www/server-info


My guess is that mod_info.c isn't loaded (or compiled in).


'locate mod_info' returns nothing.


http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents makes me wonder if I need
to install apache-common?


/etc/apache-perl/modules.conf states:

    # Autogenerated file - do not edit!
    # This file is maintained by the apache-perl package.
    # To update it, run the command:
    #    /usr/sbin/apache-modconf apache-perl


man apache-modconf states:

    In order for apache-modconf to recognize a module, this needs to
    have a correctly formatted .info file  in /usr/lib/apache/1.3/


/usr/lib/apache/1.3 seems to have *.info files for many Apache modules:

    # l /usr/lib/apache/1.3/*mod_info*
    /usr/lib/apache/1.3/080mod_info.info
    /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_info.so


Fumble around with apache-modconf.  This incantation seems to do something:

    # apache-modconf apache-perl enable mod_info
    Replacing config file /etc/apache-perl/modules.conf with new version

Take a look:

    # grep mod_info /etc/apache-perl/modules.conf
    LoadModule info_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_info.so


Browse to /server-info.  Nope.


Restart Apache:

    # apache-perlctl graceful
    /usr/sbin/apache-perlctl graceful: httpd gracefully restarted

and browse again:

    Apache Server Information
    Server Settings, mod_perl.c, mod_setenvif.c, mod_expires.c, mod_auth.c,
mod_access.c, mod_rewrite.c, mod_alias.c, mod_userdir.c, mod_cgi.c, mod_dir.c,
mod_autoindex.c, mod_info.c, mod_status.c, mod_negotiation.c, mod_mime.c,
mod_mime_magic.c, mod_log_config.c, mod_macro.c, mod_so.c, http_core.c
 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Server Version: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) mod_perl/1.29
    Server Built: Jan 18 2008 19:19:05
    API Version: 19990320:18
    ...


Much better!  :-)


HTH,

David