** Using WeBWorK **

1) Missing modules:

I was missing a few perl modules, all of which I was able to install except one: Time::HiRes . I tried a CPAN install, but this yielded apparently broken makefiles everytime, which made the install impossible. If you have properly installed Time::HiRes before, please share with us how you succeeded. Or if anyone has ideas on how to edit the WeBWorK::Timing module to use another timing function, please share this also.

2) Changed Module Names for mod_perl 2.0:

As of mod_perl 2.0, the following modules have name changes: Apache::Constants => Apache::Const ; Apache::Request => Apache::RequestRec .

There may be others, but these are the few I found.

3) <Perl> Sections not supported yet in httpd.conf:

For some reason, the <Perl> sections which worked perfectly in mod_perl 1.X don't work at all in 2.0. To work around this, I did a little research in the mod_perl 2.0 documentation and chose to add the proper WeBWorK modules to @INC by adding the following to httpd.conf:

PerlRequire "/usr/local/apache2/lib/startup.pl"

This included a startup script in which I could use the proper "use lib qw(/path/to/new/lib /path/to/other/new/lib);". This let mod_perl properly find all the new WeBWorK modules.

4) Still more errors...

I'm still getting errors in the apache2 error_log about how some argument isn't a blessed object. However, it won't share enough debugging info for me to find the problem. But I will continue to post new discoveries as they come along.

- Scott McCormack

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I have installed Timing::HiRes module with mod_perl 1x using the CPAN module without any difficulty.

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

gets me a cpan> prompt and

make Timing::HiRes test Timing::HiRes install Timing::HiRes allows it to be installed. (Actually I just used install Timing::HiRes because I knew that it had worked before.)

Does mod_perl 1 or mod_perl2 really make a difference here? I would have thought that mod_perl was not involved at all in installing the module.

--Mike

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But on another note, another difference in mod_perl 2.0 is that the apache config term "PerlHandler" has been changed to "PerlResponseHandler". Not a big deal if mod_perl was configured with MP_COMPAT_1X=1.

--Scott McCormack

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to make the require function happy.

Is that the problem? or is it something else?

--Mike

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(See also http://webhost.math.rochester.edu/webworkdocs/discuss/msgReader$2186) --Mike

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