RT3/Apache2/Mod_Perl2 (Global $r object is not available.)

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I saw a posting by alex@porous.de in March this year - regarding the
error message:

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start

[Tue May 13 21:18:29 2003] [error] Global $r object is not available.
Set:
PerlOptions +GlobalRequest
in httpd.conf at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm line
567.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 1.

[Tue May 13 21:18:29 2003] [error] Can’t load Perl file:
/opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl for server XXXXXX.XXXXX.edu.au:0, exiting…

this is a change in behaviour between Mod_Perl 1.99_08 and 1.99_09
(I’ve been using 1.99_07). I don’t know whether this has gone away in
later versions of HTML::Mason (I’m still using 1.17 rather than 1.20)
but I needed to add the following to /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl to get
everything working. I don’t know what changes need to be made so this
can be more universally applied to Mod_Perl 1 and Mod_Perl 2 instances.

diff -c bin/webmux.pl /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl | more

*** bin/webmux.pl Tue May 13 21:09:36 2003
— /opt/rt3/bin/webmux.pl Tue May 13 21:19:23 2003
*** 33,38 ****
— 33,48 ----
$ENV{‘IFS’} = ‘’ if defined $ENV{‘IFS’};
}

  • require Apache::RequestUtil;
  • no warnings ‘redefine’;
  • my $sub = *Apache::request{CODE};
  • *Apache::request = sub {
  • my $r;

  • eval { $r = $sub->('Apache'); };

  • # warn $@ if $@;

  • return $r;
  • };
    use lib (“/opt/rt3/local/lib”, “/opt/rt3/lib”);
    use RT;

I found the information @
http://www.mail-archive.com/modperl@apache.org/msg33301.html

-Brook