Hello RT likes,
WARNING: This is rather long. Please bear with me.
I seem to have a strange problem which I believe only hawk-eyed gurus can bail
me out of. I’ve used a script to compile apache+mod_ssl+modperl1. This script
can be seen at https://beastie.wananchi.com/~wash/Apache/build-script.txt
I am wondering if it’s a problem within that script because when I use it, the
moment I run apachectl configtest I get syntax OK, and a core dump.
This is happening on 2 FreeBSD boxes (one is 4.7-STABLE, the other 5.0-RELEASE).
Perl versions are as follows: 4.7-STABLE has Perl-5.6.1 while 5.0-RELEASE has
5.8. Both have Apache-1.3.27 and modperl1. This happens only with static
compilation of modperl into apache.
When I comment out the RT VirtualHost or run RT using FCGI, I don’t get this core
dump. When I install apache-mod_ssl/modperl each from the ports, meaning I have
modperl as DSO the setup works okay. I would love to have modperl statically compiled
into apache though.
I am wondering if anyone can reproduce the crash using the script on a test
box (wishful thinking…)
Here are some more details:
Apache-1.3.27 statically compiled with modperl (see script above)
Full analysis of the core files using gdb on both systems can be found at the URL:
https://beastie.wananchi.com/~wash/Apache/
OPTION 1 (Static): This core dumps
beastie# httpd -l
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
mod_perl.c
suexec: enabled; valid wrapper /usr/local/sbin/suexec
OPTION 2 (DSO): This does NOT core dump!
wash@ns2 (‘tty’) ~ 1 → httpd -l
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_so.c
suexec: enabled; valid wrapper /usr/local/sbin/suexec
The VirtualHost entry that causes this on the 5.0 system is below. The only
variation to this on the 4.7 system is that on the 4.7 system it’s rt-2-0-15.
When I run rt3 using fastcgi on the 5.0 system there is no problem at all.
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName rt3.wananchi.com
DocumentRoot /opt/rt3/share/html
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
this line applies to Apache2+mod_perl2 only
PerlModule Apache2 Apache::compat
PerlModule Apache::DBI
PerlRequire /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl
<Location />
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler RT::Mason
</Location>
Thanking you for your time.
-Wash
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