mod_perl is in .conf file, but how to verify it's loaded?

#1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007

I have installed mod_perl on my CentOS 4 machine. I can tell:

[root@SP4659a ~]# perl -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
1.9916

I would *assume* that the Web server has loaded it, because the
install created the file
/etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf
and my main /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file includes the line:
Include conf.d/*.conf

And I have restarted the server since installing mod_perl, and it
restarted with no errors.

But I'd like to verify directly, from within a Perl script or from
HTTP headers or something, that the Apache webserver has loaded
mod_perl correctly -- how do I do that?

One source:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/216
said that I could telnet to port 80 of the machine and get the "/"
page, and if mod_perl was installed, it would be mentioned in the http
headers. But I don't see it:

[root@SP4659a ~]# telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:13:03 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:13:05 GMT
ETag: "908001-65-a4a5a640"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 101
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<html>
[etc.]

I have also installed a Perl script that prints the values of all
environment variables, and I don't see it there either:
http://www.amazonshield.com/cgi-bin/z1/nph-showall.cgi

How can I verify that it's loaded? Or does this mean it's not
actually loaded properly?

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