Re: Upgrading a mod_perl application from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:34 PM Andrew Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi William,
>
> But you are better off looking at;
>
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/ServerUtil.html#C_get_server_version_
>
> which returns nothing except exactly what you are asking.
>
>
> I did try this (and it worked fine) — but I kept seeing the following
> error pop up in the logs:
>
> *ap_get_server_version() is deprecated since httpd/2.3.0 try using
> ap_get_server_(description|banner)() instead*
>
> So I switched to banner.  I’ll see about switching again to description.
>

Ahhh, ok, just be aware the get_server_description call doesn't exist in
2.2, you need
to perform a little eval() magic to guard against that expected failure.