Re: Third post. PLease help. PerlHandler configuration question.

[Todd Chapman <mo...@chaka.net>]

That only solves half the problem. Since it is a virtual directory, how
will Apache::Registry know where 'cgifile' really exists so it can run it?

For example:

http://www.mydoamin.com/dirA/dirB/cgifile

dirA and dirB don't really exist. If 'cgifile' is stored somewhere else
how will Apache::Registry know where to find it?

Thanks.

-Todd

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Richard Dice wrote:

> Todd:
> 
> This seems fairly straightforward.  Have you not just tried:
> 
> <Location ~ /cgifile$/>
>    SetHandler   perl-script
>    PerlHandler  Apache::Registry
> </Location>
> 
> ?
> 
> Just because it's in a virtual directory, it's a virtual URI/URL, etc.,
> doesn't mean that Location isn't the correct directive.  "Location"
> means a match on the URI requested by the web client.  I just put
> a pattern match in there saying "if the requested URI ends with 'cgifile',
> then handle with Apache::Registry".  
> 
> This isn't a perfect location matching pattern, as this will work also on
>    http://www.yourdomain.com/thisisnotacgifile
> but I can leave it to you to spruce it up.  Maybe try
>    <Location ~ /.*\/cgifile$/>
> ?
> 
> (I know that would work with Perl, but the Apache pattern matching
> engine might not work exactly the same in this circumstance.)
> 
> If I misunderstood your problem, I'm sorry for not having read closer,
> confused you, etc. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
> Todd Chapman wrote:
> > 
> > I need to get this problem solved for a project I am working on. Any help
> > is appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Todd
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > 
> > I am servicing requests from a virtual document tree. Most of the time I
> > want the request to be serviced by a PerlHandler module I wrote. However,
> > if the requested filename is 'cgifile' I would rather have
> > Apache::Registry handle the request, but since this is a virtual document
> > tree the CGI program 'cgifile' is located in a real directory somewhere
> > else.
> > 
> > 1. How would I configure this behavior?
> > 
> > 2. Would I have to locate 'cgifile' in the document tree or could it be
> > located anywhere accessible by the httpd process?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > -Todd
> 
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Re: Third post. PLease help. PerlHandler configuration question.

[Perrin Harkins <pe...@primenet.com>]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Todd Chapman wrote:
> That only solves half the problem. Since it is a virtual directory, how
> will Apache::Registry know where 'cgifile' really exists so it can run it?

Either put it under your docroot or use the standard Alias stuff:

Alias       /perl/     /home/httpd/perl/

See
http://thingy.kcilink.com/modperlguide/config/Alias_Configurations.html
for more.

- Perrin