mod_perl cannot find startup.pl

[Jim Garrison]

Running Centos 6.6 with Apache 2.2.15 and mod_perl 2.0.4

I'm trying to add a startup script (startup.pl) but cannot seem to get
mod_perl to find it. I've reduced the config down to the bare minimum
that still reproduces the issue for me.

Perl apache configuration:

LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
PerlRequire /home/web/pdxep/startup.pl
PerlSwitches -wT

Contents of /home/web/pdxep/startup.pl

use lib qw(/home/web/pdxep);
1;

When attempting to start Apache:

[Wed Jul 08 16:13:02 2015] [error] Can't locate
/home/web/pdxep/startup.pl in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib64/perl5
/usr/local/share/perl5
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
/usr/lib64/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/etc/httpd) at (eval 2) line 1.\n
[Wed Jul 08 16:13:02 2015] [error] Can't load Perl file:
/home/web/pdxep/startup.pl for server perseus.jhmg.pvt:0,
exiting...

As a sanity check to show I've verified permissions:

[***@perseus pdxep]$ ls -ld / /home /home/web /home/web/pdxep
dr-xr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 May 26 11:18 /
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Jul 8 14:42 /home
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jul 8 14:43 /home/web
drwxr-xr-x. 3 jhg apache 4096 Jul 8 16:04 /home/web/pdxep
[***@perseus pdxep]$ ls -l /home/web/pdxep/startup.pl
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 jhg apache 33 Jul 8 16:04 /home/web/pdxep/startup.pl

Also as a sanity check, su to apache and load the startup script:

[***@perseus pdxep]$ sudo -s -u apache
bash-4.1$ cd
bash-4.1$ pwd
/var/www
bash-4.1$ perl -de0

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.32
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1): 0
DB<1> require '/home/web/pdxep/startup.pl';

DB<2> x @INC
0 '/home/web/pdxep'
1 '/usr/local/lib64/perl5'
2 '/usr/local/share/perl5'
3 '/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl'
4 '/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl'
5 '/usr/lib64/perl5'
6 '/usr/share/perl5'
7 '.'

The fact that element [0] in @INC has that value shows the script
executed successfully.

Any suggestions on further troubleshooting?

[Jim Garrison]

Anything like selinux?
If you put the startup.pl in the same dir as the config file and chown
to the same user apache is using?
Regards,
KAM

Post by Jim Garrison
Running Centos 6.6 with Apache 2.2.15 and mod_perl 2.0.4
I'm trying to add a startup script (startup.pl) but cannot seem to get
mod_perl to find it. I've reduced the config down to the bare minimum
that still reproduces the issue for me.

[snip]


D'OH!!! I was sure I had turned off selinux, but had not.

That was a very good call.

Thank you!

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Post by Jim Garrison
D'OH!!! I was sure I had turned off selinux, but had not.
That was a very good call.

No worries, we've all been there.

regards,
KAM