--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Brett Randall <brett@[...].com>  wrote:

>  From: Brett Randall <brett@[...].com>
>  Subject: Re: Unable to get PerlAuthenHandler to work in mp2
>  To: "Perrin Harkins" <perrin@[...].com>
>  Cc: modperl@[...].org
>  Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 3:42 PM
>  >>>>> "Perrin" == Perrin Harkins
>  <perrin@[...].com> writes:
>  
>  > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Brett Randall
>  <brett@[...].com> wrote:
>  >> I'm trying to get PerlAuthenHandler to work
>  but when I go to a URL
>  >> that I've set it up on, it asks for a username
>  and password and then
>  >> lets me in no matter what I type.
>  
>  > Have you debugged this code to figure out which line
>  it returns on?
>  
>  I was wondering about debugging... I'll probably do the
>  good old open a
>  file, write to it after each line, and see where it stops
>  writing - but
>  for future reference, is there a better way to debug
>  PerlAuthenHandlers?


Try adding "warn $msg" statements (instead of printing to a file).

Perl's "warn" function prints to STDERR, which is usually appended to the web server's error
s log.  To read the errors as they are printed, do the following (provided you have shell ac
cess on your server, and it's running on some kind of Unix/Linux system):

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log
(where /var/log/httpd/error_log is the path to your error log).

Regards,
John Drago