Installing gramene (Apache perl module)

[Ken Youens-Clark]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Sumit Middha wrote:

> Hi,
> We tried installing the latest version of gramene from ftp:// 
> ftp.gramene.org/pub/gramene/CURRENT_RELEASE/software. But there  
> were a few perl modules that it complained about, and we tried to  
> install.
>
> The 'Apache' perl module tries to install mod_perl 1.99, which only  
> works with Apache 1.3.x.  We have already moved to Apache 2.x for  
> numerous reasons, and will not be able to support a separate 1.3.x  
> instance just for this software.  We can proceed if the software  
> will work with mod_perl 2.x
>
> Can you help us on this ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sumit

Sumit,

I'm sorry to say that Gramene is incompatible with Apache 2 and will  
only work with Apache 1.3.x.  The solution is easy enough, however:   
Just compile a 1.3.x version into something like "/opt/apache1/" and  
have it listen on an alternate port (say "81"?).  You can seamlessly  
proxy all Gramene-related requests through your Apache 2 server to  
this alternate server.

HTH,

ky