Fred Lovine wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following global.asa:
> -------------
> require "citylinkweb.pl";
>
> -------------
>
> But when the required file is edited, the changes do not take effect until
> the Apache server is restarted.
> Other files are reloading automatically. How do I get this file to
> dynamically reload?
>
> Here are my httpd.conf settings:
> PerlSetVar Global .
> PerlSetVar StatINC 1
If StatINC does not work for you to reload this at runtime, you
might try Apache::Reload to do so. Reloading perl libraries at runtime
can have lots of problems, and one is happy when it just works.
> And for extra credit:
> When the required file has a reference to
> $main::Request->ServerVariables('SERVER_SOFTWARE') and is then edited, an
> error is generated:
>
> [Tue Nov 20 01:12:27 2001] [error] [asp] [844] [error] can't require/reload
> citylinkweb.pl: Can't call method "Item" on an undefined value at
I imagine that this might be from code being run that relies on
$main::Request in this case being defined. However $main::Request is
not necessarily defined during global.asa compilation or during
StatINC library reloading, so this call would need to be in a subroutine
for it to not error when $Request is being used.
> So, it seems that there is an attempt to reload the file. Subsequent calls
> to the app however use the original file and without error, until the
> required file is altered again.
>
If you really want this file to be reloaded like an ASP script/include,
you could:
sub Script_OnStart {
do 'citylinkweb.pl';
}
or could load it similarly as an include if you wrap the code with <% %>
sub Script_OnStart {
$Response->Include('citylinkweb.pl');
}
-- Josh
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