Sun, 29 Apr 2007 (04:26 -0500 UTC) Ryan Schmidt wrote:
The mod_perl port exists for the MacPorts version of Apache 1.
% port info mod_perl mod_perl 1.29, Revision 2, www/mod_perl (Variants: universal, darwin_6) http://perl.apache.org/ {Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache 1.3 server} Library Dependencies: perl5.8, apache Platforms: darwin freebsd Maintainers: bchesneau@mac.com Note that mod_perl 1.29 is susceptable to a moderately critical DoS attack as is mod_perl 2.0.2. See http://search.cpan.org/~gozer/mod_perl-1.30/Changes SECURITY: CVE-2007-1349 (cve.mitre.org) fix unescaped variable interpolation in Apache::PerlRun regular expression to prevent regex engine tampering. reported by Alex Solovey [Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, Fred Moyer <fred@redhotpenguin.com>] Both have been upgraded to versions greater than are found in macports. The upgrade from MP 1.29 to 1.30 is trivial--requiring a checksum change and the version change. For example on my iMacs I have % port installed mod_perl The following ports are currently installed: mod_perl @1.30_2 I decided to manage apache2 on my own. -- Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky