Installing mod_perl on Windows 7

Hi folks,

This is my first post on this list.

I am trying to install mod_perl on Windows 7, and am running into some problems.

Here's what I did.

First, I ran the following commands to get the mod_perl package and install it:

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ppm rep add http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/12xx
ppm install mod_perl
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Then I added the following lines at the start of my httpd.conf file:

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LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl512.dll"
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
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But since then, Apache won't restart,  unless I comment out those two lines. To diagnose the problem, I ran the command:

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httpd.exe -t -c httpd.conf
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And it gives me the following error message:

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httpd: Syntax error on line 29 of C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.17/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load C:/Perl/bin/perl512.dll into server: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
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The file C:/Perl/bin/perl512.dll does exist.

I am wondering if the problem is not due to a difference between 32 and 64 bits applications. I ran a small perl script which looks at the DOS headers of executables, to find the architecture that the executable was compiled for, and here's what it tells me:

httpd.exe: AMD64
perl512.dll: i386
mod_perl.so: i386

I would think that a 64 Apache is able to load a 32 bit DLL, no?

Does anyone have some ideas or suggestions?

Thx.

Alain Désilets



Alain Désilets
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Institut de technologie de l'information | Institute for Information Technology Conseil national de recherches du Canada | National Research Council of Canada