perl scripts hang after migration to apache2.0.40

[Stas Bekman]

Kerry Seibold wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am setting up a new box to migrate my webserver to.
> Existing server is RH7.1 Apache 1.3.19: webserver works fine.
> New server (hostname webserver2): Have installed RH8 with Apache2.0.40.
> Have copied the complete /var/www from old to new.
> Have cut and paste and setup /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and this tests ok.
> (httpd -t returns "Syntax OK").
> 
> Testing the webserver on my lan, plain old html pages are served up ok, but
> some CGI's (Perl) serve back some data,
> then the browser just hangs waiting for more data.
> Apache error log file says:
> 
> [Fri Jan 31 10:04:46 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20507)The timeout
> specified has expired: ap_content_length_filter: apr_bucket_read() failed.
> 
> I am using perl5, apache mod-perl, cgi-lib.pl.
> 
> I have searched on google, and tried apache.org, and searched my
> perl-mongers archives, but can't find any clues.
> 
> I selected a script to try to find out where the script appears to be
> hanging by inserting:
> print "ok to here #DEBUG<br>";
> print "</body></html>";
> exit;
> 
> It seems to depend on how many variables have been declared??
> 
> Does anybody have ideas about what the solution is?

First of all RH8 comes with pretty old mod_perl and Apache, so the first thing 
to do is to grab the latest Apache 2.0.44 and mod_perl 1.99_08 and try again.

If the problem is still there please post this question to the modperl list 
and we will take it from there.
http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html#Subscription_Information

Don't forget to complete the whole report as described here:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/help/help.html#Reporting_Problems

and include a short script that reproduces the problem and a relevant section 
of httpd.conf.

But only after you have tried with the recent versions of Apache/mod_perl.

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