Question

I am trying to get Apache::ASP running on OSX Lion Server. I have made a fresh install of OSX Lion VM in Fusion 4, installed the Xcode app (with command line tools), and run the following shell commands:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan> install CPAN

cpan> install Bundle::Apache::ASP

I’ve add to end of the httpd.confg files (/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf and
/Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/httpd_server_app.conf.default):

 <Files ~ (\.asp)>    
    SetHandler  perl-script
    PerlHandler Apache::ASP
    PerlSetVar  Global .
    PerlSetVar  StateDir /tmp/asp
 </Files>

But either adding the set handler or perlhandler causes Apache not to restart. Take them both out and Apache starts, but serves an .asp file as a text file….

UPDATE #1:

Oops, twenty or thirty:

 sudo apachectl restart

and I didn’t even have mod perl running. Adding the below to the httpd.conf file got Apache to start:

LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so
Alias /perl/ /Library/WebServer/Documents/perl/
<Location /perl/>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry 
  PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
  Options +ExecCGI
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>

$Request->{Method} will now return a value, but….

   %test = $Request->ServerVariables(); #or $Request->ServerVariables(URL);
   %><%= $test %><%

Outputs: Apache::ASP::Collection=HASH(0x7f84114c58d8)

UPDATE #2:

Several of the ServerVariables are undefined on Apache::ASP vs. IIS. The syntax is slightly different than expected. Below will list all available server variables…

my $variables = $Request->{ServerVariables};
print join '<br>', sort keys %$variables;

Answer 1

Solution has been added to question, but the short answer is that mod perl must be running (and does not start by default on OS X Lion…