Re: passing an argument to startup.pl - RESOLVED

[Geronimo <ge...@clerkin.co.uk>]

Many thanks to Jonathan Vanasco and Jeff Noakes for their respective solutions to this problem. I've implemented both; Jonathan's on a production unix server and Jeff's on a Win32 test box where apache runs as a service.

Very helpful.

Best Regards,
Gerard

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Geronimo 
  To: modperl@perl.apache.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:58 PM
  Subject: passing an argument to startup.pl


  PROBLEM:
  I need to pass an argument to startup.pl, in order to associate Apache2 with a specific version of an app. The app version has a simple identifier, say 'dv1'. 
  What I'm trying to do is emulate passing an argument on the command line, which will show up in @ARGV, like;
  $ /devel/startup.pl dv1

  I've tried various things, like quoting the call to startup.pl in httpd.conf;
  PerlRequire "/devel/startup.pl dv1"
  which doesn't work, as PerlRequire sees dv1 as a second argument to itself. All the methods I've looked at for setting environment variables don't get visibility until the server is up and running, which is fair enough.

  SOLUTION: 
  None so far, except this workaround

  # in http.conf:
  # fake addition to @INC
  PerlSwitches -I/devel/dv1
  PerlRequire "/devel/startup.pl"

  # in startup.pl
  .. pull /devel/dv1 off @INC with a grep

  Any suggestions of a more worthy solution would be appreciated.

  Thanks,
  Gerard

  # "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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