I'm trying to use mod_perl on Debian Etch. I was looking at "practical mod_perl" book, but it appears that much has changed in mod_perl 2.0 so the second example doesn't work at all.

The first example, which is just two print statements to give a minimal header and content text, is invoked so I know the code is installed and the Apache configuration files are set up.

But the code from the Synopses of the Apache2::Request module documentation causes a segfault on the second line. The 'use' is OK, but the 'new' shows in the apache logs that there was a segfault.

How do I begin to find out what the real error is? Is there something more that needs to be done with Debian installing from the apt? Could someone post a trivial example that ought to work?

--John