Knowing the port you have configured Apache to listen on, you can use Telnet to talk directly to it.
Assuming that your mod_perl-enabled server listens to port 8080,[22] telnet to your server at port 8080, type HEAD / HTTP/1.0, and then press the Enter key twice:
[22]If in doubt, try port 80, which is the standard HTTP port.
panic% telnet localhost 8080 HEAD / HTTP/1.0
You should see a response like this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 09:49:41 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection closed.
The line:
Server: Apache/1.3.24 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26
confirms that you have mod_perl installed and that its version is 1.26.
 
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