problems using mod_layout

Hi there,

I'm hoping to get mod_layout working since it can be immensely useful to us -- it worked fine on our development server, but we came across some weird problems as soon as we enabled the module on a production machine (naturally).  

Once enabled, we would get partial page loads (the page would truncate somewhere in the middle) , images not loading up, css includes not being included and the like.  We do have a fairly complex set up - modPerl, php4, ssl, rewrite, mod alias, mod include are all used all over the place - some of the servers have some of these modules staticly linked in, others load them all as DSO -- mod_layout is DSO on all servers. 

I suspect that maybe it has something to do with the order in which the modules load? More problems were seen with cgi pages than html or php pages.

some of our setup info:
Redhat Enterprise
Server version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)

mod_layout 3.2

LoadModule perl_module        libexec/libperl.so
LoadModule php4_module        libexec/libphp4.so
LoadModule rewrite_module     libexec/mod_rewrite.so

and later on in VirtualHost block:

        <IfModule mod_layout.c>
        LayoutMerge On
        LayoutFooter "<!-- Hidden mod_layout footer -->"
        #  LayoutHeader "<!-- Hidden mod_layout header -->"
        </IfModule>

any ideas if this is a misconfiguration ( maybe the order the modules load in?), the result of all the modules not playing nice together?  Thanks in advance.

Jeff

cyberrodent.com

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