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This set of instructions will show you how to easily install mod_perl onto a cpanel server.

1) Create a new account, or choose an existing account where you will install mod_perl. I typically choose either the rvskin admin account or fantastico admin account. This tutorials will assume you install it in the rvadmin account.

2) SSH into the server, and go to:
cd /home/rvadmin/ directory

3) Get the mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
wget http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-1.0-current.tar.gz

4) Unpack the file:
tar xzf mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz

5) Move to the mod_perl directoy:
cd mod_perl-1.29

6) Configure
perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 WITH_APXS=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs EVERYTHING=1

7) Run Make
make

8) Run Install
make install

9) Activate Mod Perl
/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -a -n perl -i libperl.so

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Create the script below, and add it to the root directory of the mod_perl account holder (in this case rvadmin), and change the permissions (chmod +x add-mod-perl.sh), so to add mod_perl back into apache, you just need to run the script, and then verify that apache restarted with mod perl in it, you can check in WHM/News to see if mod_perl is listed .

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That last line is the one you’ll need to run if you re-compile Apache. The mod_perl binary is at
/home/rvadmin/mod_perl-1.29/apaci/libperl.so, so a simple way to do this would be to put the following lines in a file:

— cut here —
#!/bin/sh

libperl=/home/rvadmin/mod_perl-1.29/apaci/libperl.so
apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs

$apxs -a -n perl -i $libperl

/etc/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/init.d/httpd start
— cut here —

Name the file add-mod-perl.sh and execute “chmod +x add-mod-perl.sh”. Then, after compileing apache run the script (”./add-mod-perl.sh”) and it should all work.

PEAR Is short for ‘PHP Extension and Application Repository’

PEAR is having it’s primary goal to become a repository for PHP extensions and library code. The most important goal of the PEAR project is to try to define standard coding packages that can be used be developers directoly and it is re-usable coding.
Each package is a seperate project and is having a diffreent developer team.

Packages are in the gzipped tar files with a description file inside, and installed on your server using the PEAR installer.

You can install any pear package as
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pear install pear-package-name
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You can check all the PEAR packages that are available with
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pear list-all
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You can check installed PEAR packages on your server as
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pear list
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