In Fedora Core 4, SOAP::Transport::HTTP looks for Apache.pm instead of Apache2.pm

[Chris Grau]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:57:59AM -0800, jing han wrote:
> I meet a problem with SOAP::Transport::HTTP and
> Apache2 in Fedora Core 4 environment.
> 
> I installed httpd-2.0.54-10.i386.rpm and
> mod_perl-2.0.0-0.rc5.3.i386.rpm with Fedora Core 4
> CDs. And then I downloaded and installed
> perl-SOAP-Lite-0.60a-3.rhfc4.at.noarch.rpm.
> 
> I edited /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to add our own
> perl handler 
> as:
> 
> <Location /NM2Soap>
>     setHandler perl-script
>     perlHandler SOAPApache
> </Location>
> 
> 
> In SOAPApache module, I have: use
> SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
> 
> I use a web services application to make a request to
> my customized SOAPDaemon via SOAPApache. The request
> is not successful. I go to /etc/httpd/logs/ directory
> and check error_log message. The error_log message
> looks like follows:
> 
> Client failed to resolve handler 'SOAPApache': Can't
> locate Apache.pm in @INC.......... at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor-perl5/5.8.6/SOAP/Transport/HTTP.pm
> line 444 ............
> 
> I checked HTTP.pm file, line 444 is:
> 
> sub new {require Apache; require Apache::Constants;
> 
> How can I make SOAP::Transport::HTTP look for Apache2
> instead of Apache?

This isn't really a Fedora question.  It would be better taken up with
the authors of SOAP::Lite or on
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=SOAP-Lite.

In any case, SOAP::Lite does not work with the 2.0.0 release of
mod_perl.  It only works with mod_perl 1.x and the pre-RC5 releases of
mod_perl 2.0.  There was a significant API change and some CPAN modules
haven't changed to deal with it.

My solution was to roll my own RPM of SOAP::Lite and patch in support
for mod_perl 2.0.x.  Someone (me, maybe) should report the bug/patch
upstream, but I'm not sure if much work has been done on SOAP::Lite
recently.

-- 
Chris Grau <chris at chrisgrau.com>
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