PSGI application with Apache2 using Plack::Handler::Apache2 results in 'not found'

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first time poster, long time lurker here.

Im using a tiny PSGI application in plackup, but id like to switch to Apache2 for subdomains. I run the application with 'plackup /home/ath88/work/kolle/script/dir.psgi -port 80'. It runs perfectly on plackup. The application is quite simple and can be found at https://github.com/ath88/Kolletilmelding/blob/master/script/dir.psgi

But, i would like to run Apache2 instead of plackup for obvious reasons. For this i want to use Plack::Handler::Apache2. My VirtualHost looks as follows:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName aths.dk
      ServerAdmin asbjoern@gmail.com
      <Location />
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlResponseHandler Plack::Handler::Apache2
        PerlSetVar psgi_app /home/ath88/work/kolle/script/dir.psgi
      </Location>
    </VirtualHost>

Apache2 restarts fine. But when i attempt to visit aths.dk i mere get a 404 not found. The directory for the application is correct, since it results in a 500 Internal Error. Looking in the apache2/error.log i get this: [Irrelevant, see edit]

    [Wed Oct 05 21:32:16 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
    [Wed Oct 05 21:32:17 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

This happens every time i restart Apache2.

I have spent 4 hours trying to debug this. I am totally mindboggled.

Edit: Turns out the SIGTERM was from stopping Apache2 for restarting. It doesn't happen when i start it. Silly me.

Perhaps add some output from the access.log as well to see what it is requesting? — AFresh1, Oct 06 '11 at 05:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 06 '11 at 08:04

Maybe your setup will benefit from a reverse HTTP proxy setup.

You can start your Plack application manually, and you can bind it to 127.0.0.1:9001 instead of 127.0.0.1:80, in which case you need a privileged user ( TCP port below 1024 ).

Then a reverse HTTP proxy config that should work could be like this one:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName aths.dk
        ServerAdmin asbjoern@gmail.com

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/aths.dk-error.log
        TransferLog /var/log/apache2/aths.dk.log
        DocumentRoot /var/www/aths.dk
        ProxyRequests Off

        <Proxy *>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>
        ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:9001/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:9001/
</VirtualHost>

This should work. The weakest link will, however, still be plackup as it is only intended for development. — ath88, Oct 06 '11 at 13:09

PSGI application with Apache2 using Plack::Handler::Apache2 results in 'not found'

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