Re: Problems starting Apache 2.2 with mod_ruby

On Tuesday, 10 בJanuary 2006 11:16, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Both compile cleanly except for mod_ruby.c which produces the
> following:
>
> mod_ruby.c:151: warning: initialization from 
> incompatible pointer type 

This is probably unrelated to the actual problem, but I suggest you fix 
that as well - its often a warning about potential crashes.

> When I try to start Apache using mod_ruby, I get the following
> message:
>
> [root@www mod_ruby-1.2.4]# /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
> httpd: Syntax error on line 106 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/
> httpd.conf: Can't locate API module structure `mod_ruby' in file
> /usr/ local/apache2/modules/mod_ruby.so: ld.so.1: httpd: fatal:
> mod_ruby: can't find symbol

Apparently, the API module structure (AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA, IIRC) 
probably have changed with 2.2, and so mod_ruby compiled with the old 
definition no longer can be loaded as an apache DSO.

There was similar trouble with the upgrade from apache 1.3 to 2.0 in 
many modules, and I've read that using apxs to compile your module 
should solve all of those problems. 

I think that by getting mod_ruby to compile with apxs we can solve most 
of the grief involved in this and future API ugprades.

-- 
Oded

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setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning.  If someone is turning a knob on 
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tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is 
probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob 
is fun, he's frobbing it.