What I'm doing now is compiling mod_perl from source using the ActivePerl and apache2 libraries and scripts. Hopefully this should alleviate many of the problems... I'll let you know how it goes. (Phew: it's a lot of work, though!)
Installation
A perl problem - module not found when restarting httpd
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