Re: Virtual host with mod_perl (off-topic)

[Ryan Gies <ry...@livesite.net>]

Ahem, sorry folks about the HTML email

Ryan Gies wrote:
> I'm curious, how would this be possible with mod_perl?  The below will 
> fail as:
> 
> $r->add_config() has failed: <VirtualHost not allowed here
> 
> and when $r->add_config is changed to $r->server->add_config it will 
> fail as:
> 
> Can't run '$s->add_config' after server startup
> 
> 
> In /etc/hosts
> 
> 127.0.0.1	local.example.com
> 
> In httpd.conf
> 
> PerlInitHandler Apache::Handlers::MyInitHandler
> 
> In Apache/Handlers/MyInitHandler.pm:
> 
> package Apache::Handlers::MyInitHandler;
> use strict;
> our $VERSION = 0;
> 
> use Apache2::RequestUtil ();
> use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(DECLINED);
> 
> sub handler {
>   my $r = shift;
>   $r->add_config([
>     '<VirtualHost *:80>',
>     'ServerName local.example.com',
>     'DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/htdocs',
>     '<Directory /var/www/example.com/htdocs>',
>     'Order allow,deny',
>     'Allow from all',
>     'AllowOverride None',
>     'Options None',
>     '</Directory>',
>     '</VirtualHost>',
>   ]);
>   Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
> }
> 
> 1;
> 
> 
> Perrin Harkins wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Valerio <va...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   
>>>  Instead I need a solution that allow adding a vhost to the database
>>>  without need of restarting apache.
>>>     
>>
>> This is not usually done with mod_perl because there are
>> lighter-weight solutions available.  There's some info on vhosts with
>> mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias here:
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/mass.html
>>
>> You can find apache modules built specifically for dynamically pulling
>> vhosts from a database here:
>> http://modules.apache.org/
>>
>> You certainly could do this from mod_perl, but I wouldn't.
>>
>> - Perrin
>>