ScriptAlias hacking?

[Cliff Shaw <cb...@genforum.com>]

HI all,

This is my first post to the list so hopefully I don't screw it up.  I am
attempting to do the following with mod_perl and am stumped on
ScriptAliases.

I want to have www.foo.com/bar/ run a mod_perl script.  Simple huh?  yes.
Except I want to you use PATH_INFO to create directories (so to speak) in
bar.  So www.foo.com/bar/test/whatever
would not look for a directory but rather call the bar script and send in
the PATH_INFO, all of this has ruled out the possibility of using an
index.cgi

Any help?
Thanks
Cliff

Re: ScriptAlias hacking?

[___cliff rayman___ <cl...@genwax.com>]

i am not positive i understand your question or problem.
the place to look is in the mod_perl guide.
try here first:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/config.html#Alias_Configurations

cliff

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Cliff Shaw wrote:

> HI all,
>
> This is my first post to the list so hopefully I don't screw it up.  I am
> attempting to do the following with mod_perl and am stumped on
> ScriptAliases.
>
> I want to have www.foo.com/bar/ run a mod_perl script.  Simple huh?  yes.
> Except I want to you use PATH_INFO to create directories (so to speak) in
> bar.  So www.foo.com/bar/test/whatever
> would not look for a directory but rather call the bar script and send in
> the PATH_INFO, all of this has ruled out the possibility of using an
> index.cgi
>
> Any help?
> Thanks
> Cliff

Re: ScriptAlias hacking?

[___cliff rayman___ <cl...@genwax.com>]

lots of us are using Alias with PATH_INFO.  We are just not using ScriptAlias
because that invokes mod_cgi instead of mod_perl.

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Cliff Shaw wrote:

> I'd love to hear more from others about this but I believe ScriptAliasing is
> VERY MUCH ALIVE in mod_perl.  I kept reading that you can't use ScriptAlias
> with mod_perl.  Fine.  True.  But I read that as a death sentence to having
> pretty URL's with mod_perl.  With that statement, it should say "To use
> ScriptAliases with mod_perl, simply rename them to Alias."
> This is what I put in my Apache 1.3.12 installation and mod_perl 1.22
> httpd.conf file:
> Alias /printer /www/circles_cgi/printenv.cgi
>
> and it works!  People need to know that you can get the same effect that a
> ScriptAlias gives you with an a straight Alias, as long as you the script
> called (printenv.cgi) is flagged as a mod_perl script under a <Files> tag or
> <Location> tag.
>
> How did I get this to work?  Why hasn't anyone else figured this out?  Am I
> just preaching the obvious here?  Sure seemed to me that any type of
> "ScriptAlias" was DEAD under mod_perl.
>
> Cliff

RE: ScriptAlias hacking?

[Cliff Shaw <cb...@genforum.com>]

I'd love to hear more from others about this but I believe ScriptAliasing is
VERY MUCH ALIVE in mod_perl.  I kept reading that you can't use ScriptAlias
with mod_perl.  Fine.  True.  But I read that as a death sentence to having
pretty URL's with mod_perl.  With that statement, it should say "To use
ScriptAliases with mod_perl, simply rename them to Alias."
This is what I put in my Apache 1.3.12 installation and mod_perl 1.22
httpd.conf file:
Alias /printer /www/circles_cgi/printenv.cgi

and it works!  People need to know that you can get the same effect that a
ScriptAlias gives you with an a straight Alias, as long as you the script
called (printenv.cgi) is flagged as a mod_perl script under a <Files> tag or
<Location> tag.

How did I get this to work?  Why hasn't anyone else figured this out?  Am I
just preaching the obvious here?  Sure seemed to me that any type of
"ScriptAlias" was DEAD under mod_perl.

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Lee [mailto:kenneth.lee@alfacomtech.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:02 AM
To: Cliff Shaw
Cc: modperl@apache.org
Subject: Re: ScriptAlias hacking?


if i understand correctly, you should have in your httpd.conf something
like

  <Location "/bar">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Your::Handler
  Options +ExecCGI
  </Location>

then, in your module

  package Your::Handler;
  sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    my $path_info = $r->path_info;
    ...
  }
  1;

i'm fairly new to mod_perl, so pls correct/criticize if there's anything
wrong.

kenneth


Cliff Shaw wrote:
>
> HI all,
>
> This is my first post to the list so hopefully I don't screw it up.  I am
> attempting to do the following with mod_perl and am stumped on
> ScriptAliases.
>
> I want to have www.foo.com/bar/ run a mod_perl script.  Simple huh?  yes.
> Except I want to you use PATH_INFO to create directories (so to speak) in
> bar.  So www.foo.com/bar/test/whatever
> would not look for a directory but rather call the bar script and send in
> the PATH_INFO, all of this has ruled out the possibility of using an
> index.cgi
>
> Any help?
> Thanks
> Cliff

Re: ScriptAlias hacking?

[Kenneth Lee <ke...@alfacomtech.com>]

if i understand correctly, you should have in your httpd.conf something 
like

  <Location "/bar">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Your::Handler
  Options +ExecCGI
  </Location>

then, in your module

  package Your::Handler;
  sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    my $path_info = $r->path_info;
    ...
  }
  1;

i'm fairly new to mod_perl, so pls correct/criticize if there's anything 
wrong.

kenneth


Cliff Shaw wrote:
> 
> HI all,
> 
> This is my first post to the list so hopefully I don't screw it up.  I am
> attempting to do the following with mod_perl and am stumped on
> ScriptAliases.
> 
> I want to have www.foo.com/bar/ run a mod_perl script.  Simple huh?  yes.
> Except I want to you use PATH_INFO to create directories (so to speak) in
> bar.  So www.foo.com/bar/test/whatever
> would not look for a directory but rather call the bar script and send in
> the PATH_INFO, all of this has ruled out the possibility of using an
> index.cgi
> 
> Any help?
> Thanks
> Cliff