Hey ho

I have a simple configuration:

PerlModule Test::FH
<Location /xyz/abc>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler Test::FH
</Location>

Now I go to the URL http://www.myhost.com/xyz/abc/qqq/123

Inside my code I want to get "/ggg/123" so I try

print "Request: " . $r->path_info . "\n";

This returns "/abc/ggg/123"
Now it always drops the top level "/xyz" - assumably because it is
effectively a file in the root directory.
One way to fix it is to create all the directories, but not too many.

Now what I really want is anything after what ever the location that
the handler is set in.

I can achieve this with a variable that sets the location, but that
seemed a little redundant.

Effectively I am creating a "virtual" location.

Is there a way I can configure or get the Location ?

Ta

Scott
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Scott Penrose wrote:
> Hey ho
>
> I have a simple configuration:
>
> PerlModule Test::FH
> <Location /xyz/abc>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlResponseHandler Test::FH
> </Location>
>
> Now I go to the URL http://www.myhost.com/xyz/abc/qqq/123
>
> Inside my code I want to get "/ggg/123" so I try
>
> print "Request: " . $r->path_info . "\n";
>
> This returns "/abc/ggg/123"
> Now it always drops the top level "/xyz" - assumably because it is
> effectively a file in the root directory.

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.

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Michael Peters
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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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