mpl extension

[Jim Hamer <jh...@canada.com>]

Hello listers,

I need some really basic help. I am a developer is has taken over a set of 
embperl programs. All of these programs have the extension .mpl. Why? I 
cannot find any reference to this extension in the online documentation.

I do not have a lot of server expertise, so I have a second query. These 
mpl programs do not reside in the cgi-bin directory, but in a directory 
under the document root. Is this normal for embperl programs? Or could the 
apache server have been told to look for these programs in a different 
directory?

Is it normal to refer to embperl programs as scripts?
Are they referred to as 'executable'?

Thanks,
Jim

Re: mpl extension

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

Hi,

embperl programms can have wahtever extention you like. There should be some
configuration directive in the Apache config like the following:

<Files *.mpl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Embperl
Options ExecCGI
</Files>

this tells Apache to pass all file with *.mpl extention to mod_perl, which
passes it to Embperl for the actual processing. The pages need not to be
mark as executable

Hope this helps

Gerald




>
> I need some really basic help. I am a developer is has taken over a set of
> embperl programs. All of these programs have the extension .mpl. Why? I
> cannot find any reference to this extension in the online documentation.
>
> I do not have a lot of server expertise, so I have a second query. These
> mpl programs do not reside in the cgi-bin directory, but in a directory
> under the document root. Is this normal for embperl programs? Or could the
> apache server have been told to look for these programs in a different
> directory?
>
> Is it normal to refer to embperl programs as scripts?
> Are they referred to as 'executable'?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
>
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