Re: Location, filename, path_info

[Scott Penrose <sc...@dd.com.au>]

On 31/07/2006, at 23:15, Michael Peters wrote:
> Are you saying that /xyz does exist in your document root? I've  
> found that
> Apache won't work if you mix a virtual directory, real directory  
> and path_info.
>
> This is because PATH_INFO is what ever is left over after url =>  
> file name
> mapping. If there's no real file, then apache removes the  
> <Location> value, else
> it removes the part that is a real file/directory.
>
> If you want a virtual directory, make sure that there are no real  
> directories of
> the same name.

Sounds like I am experiencing this problem. Another way of explaining  
this is using ScriptAlias - if I was using standard CGI I could do  
this...

	ScriptAlias /xyz/abc /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test-fm.pl

And now it will work perfectly. It does not matter if directories  
exist or not.

	e.g. http://www.myhost.com/xyz/abc/qqq/123

Now has PATH_INFO set to "/qqq/123". You can create in DocumentRoot  
"xyz" and even "xyz/abc" and even "xyz/abc/qqq" and it still sets  
PATH_INFO to "/qqq/123"

However this is not the case using "<Location>" which does make sense  
but...

So another way of putting my question is - how do I use a Perl Module  
instead of a ScriptAlias (CGI Script) and get the same results from  
path_info.

Ta

Scott
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