My apologies... Need to double-check what I say before I say it.

Support for the <Perl> sections was added after 1.99_07 and will be
included in the next release.

Sorry for the confusing advice. You might want to give a try at one of
the nightly tarballs or at a CVS checkout.

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:12, Dmitri Tikhonov wrote:
> 
> Thanks for pointing me in that direction.  While <Perl > did not work as 
> you suggested (produced error 'no <Perl> handler specified'), it did cause 
> me to grep for this error message, and it is in file 
> src/modules/perl/modperl_cmd.c.  I was able to get some information from 
> that code: mod_perl wants directive of the form
> <Perl handler=Some::Handler>
> where Some::Handler actually looks like a valid handler, i.e. has a 
> subroutine called handler().  The module is compiled and handler() is 
> called during config parse time.  Unfortunately, I could not figure out 
> how to set Apache directives from that subroutine.  Simply setting global 
> $ServerAdmin does not produce the desired effect.  Is there a global 
> Apache config namespace or hash?
> 
> Also, my httpd.conf has things like this:
> 
> <Perl>
> $PerlConfig = "
> <VirtualHost _default_:$ssl_port>
> # some directives here.
> </VirtualHost>
> ";
> </Perl>
> 
> I am at a loss as to how I'd go about replicating these dynamically 
> generated directives in the new mod_perl model.
> 
> Eagerly waiting for suggestions,
> 
>   - Dmitri.
> 
> On 8 Jan 2003, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 00:56, Dmitri Tikhonov wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > Simply put, there is a small difference in behaviour (bug) in apache's
> > config parsing code. For now, just put
> > <Perl > instead of <Perl>
> > 
> > Apache assumes <> containers to always have a value argument, like in
> > <Foo /var>.
> > 
> > Will eventually be fixed though. 
> > 
> > > I am in the process of converting to Apache2/mod_perl2.  My old httpd.conf 
> > > file contains these lines (stuff in the middle omitted):
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > >   LoadModule perl_module /usr/libexec/mod_perl.so
> > >   <Perl>
> > >       $ServerAdmin = 'admin@'.`hostname`;
> > >   </Perl>
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > After LoadModule directive, I added this line:
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > >   PerlRequire /etc/httpd/conf/startup.pl
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > (taken straight from ./docs/user/config/config.pod of mod_perl
> > > distribution) and uncommented 'use Apache::compat' line.
> > > 
> > > When I start apache, I see this error:
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > [root@audrey conf]# /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 
> > > Syntax error on line 90 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> > > <Perl> directive missing closing '>'
> > > [root@audrey conf]# 
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > I only found this recent thread  -- 
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03485.html -- I think 
> > > it talks about <Perl> directive support not being finished (?)  Is that 
> > > correct?  Documentation on <Perl> section is empty 
> > > 
>(http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html#C_E_lt_PerlE_gt___Sections).
> > > 
> > > I have no idea what's going on.  What am I missing?  Is there another set
> > > of documentation that explains this behavior?
> > > 
> > > My setup: apache 2.0.43, mod_perl 1.99_07.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > - Dmitri.
> > > 
> > > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Philippe M. Chiasson /gozer\@(cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ 88C3A5A5
> > (122FF51B/C634E37B)
> > http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/    F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107
> > 88C3 A5A5
> > Q: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
> > ingenious.
> > perl
> > -e'$$=\${gozer};{$_=unpack(P7,pack(L,$$));/^JAm_pH\n$/&&print||$$++&&redo}'
> > 
> 
> 
> 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Philippe M. Chiasson /gozer\@(cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ 88C3A5A5
(122FF51B/C634E37B)
http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/    F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107
88C3 A5A5
Q: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious.
perl
-e'$$=\${gozer};{$_=unpack(P7,pack(L,$$));/^JAm_pH\n$/&&print||$$++&&redo}'

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