When I start apache I get the following error: can someone help?

Starting httpd2: Number found where operator expected
at
/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/apache2-mod_perl-startup.pl
line 36, near "NameVirtualHost 161.184.xxx.xxx"
(Do you need to predeclare NameVirtualHost?)
Number found where operator expected at
/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/apache2-mod_perl-startup.pl
line 38, near "VirtualHost 161.184.xxx.xxx"
(Do you need to predeclare VirtualHost?)
[Fri Aug 01 13:48:53 2003] [error] Search pattern not
terminated at
/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/apache2-mod_perl-startup.pl
line 39.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 1.
[Fri Aug 01 13:48:53 2003] [error] Can't load Perl
file:
/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/apache2-mod_perl-startup.pl
for server algxxx76fy42sa.ab.hsia.telus.net:0,
exiting...

[FAILED]

Could you please post the file (/etc/httpd/conf/addon-modules/apache2-mod_perl-startup.pl)? Remove all information you don't want to show, of course, but show the lines 36, 38 and 39.

use Apache2 ();

use lib qw(/var/www/perl);

# If the mod_perl-common package is present, enable
# mod_perl 1.0 compatibility mode. Otherwise, we add
# /var/www/perl/.modperl2 to the list of searched
directories
# for libraries, so we can, for example, put a dummy
Apache::Status
# since it's not present in mod_perl 2.0.
use Config;
if ( -e "$Config{'vendorarch'}/Apache.pm" ) {
require Apache::compat
} else {
import lib qw(/var/www/perl/.modperl2);
}

use ModPerl::Util (); #for CORE::GLOBAL::exit

use Apache::RequestRec ();
use Apache::RequestIO ();
use Apache::RequestUtil ();

use Apache::Server ();
use Apache::ServerUtil ();
use Apache::Connection ();
use Apache::Log ();

use APR::Table ();

use ModPerl::Registry ();

use Apache::Const -compile => ':common';
use APR::Const -compile => ':common';

1;
NameVirtualHost somthing.com

<VirtualHost somthing.com:*>
</VirtualHost>