Comment on the apparent importance of PerlModule Apache2::Request

diff --git a/web/conf/apache2.0/cartney-dev.conf b/web/conf/apache2.0/cartney-dev.conf
index 7f3ae98..6442e68 100644 (file)
--- a/web/conf/apache2.0/cartney-dev.conf
+++ b/web/conf/apache2.0/cartney-dev.conf
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 # on running HTML::Mason-based sites under the apache2 port for Macs.
 
 PerlSwitches -I/usr/local/src/git/irspy/lib
+
+# Empirally, it seems that including this next line prevents the bug
+# in which some but not all requests result in the error:
+#      Undefined subroutine &ZOOM::IRSpy::connect_to_registry
+# (This ought not to make any difference, as the Apache2::Request
+# module should of course get loaded from within IRSpy anyway, but you
+# never know with Apache.)
 PerlModule Apache2::Request
 
 <VirtualHost *:80>