> That right there is kind of a red-flag. Not that you're doing anything wrong,
> but Apache has a weird notion of PATH_INFO when a real directory exists. And
> Dispatch relies on PATH_INFO for parsing. You can check what Apache thinks it
> is by printing the $ENV{PATH_INFO} in your Dispatch.pm.
Ok, you're definitely right about that. Apache just completely drops
that first bit, which was expected
>
> Why are you using a Directory for this? I'm not sure if that affects what
> Apache does with PATH_INFO or not, but I usually use a Location. Especially
> since your not serving things out of that directory directly (instead you're
> using ACD::Dispatch to provide a "virtual" directory).
Because I didn't know how to do it another way? :-) I updated it to this:
<Location /abc>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ACD::Dispatch
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
Note: The following has been there all along:
ScriptAlias /abc "/path/to/abc"
>> Go to:
>> localhost/abc/
>> Get:
>> Home, welcome
>
> What is PATH_INFO here? I would expect it to be ''
You are correct.
>> Go to:
>> localhost/abc/fdjksalfdsafdsa
>> Get:
>> Home, welcome
> What is PATH_INFO here? It looks like it should be 'fdjksalfdsafdsa', but
> Dispatch looks like it's behaving with a PATH_INFO of ''.
You are correct.
>> Go to:
>> localhost/abc/jkfldjskljfdkls/home_othercontroller
>> Get:
>> Error'd
> Again, PATH_INFO looks like it should be
> 'jkfldjskljfdkls/home_othercontroller' but Dispatch behaves like it's
> "home_othercontroller"
You are correct.
>> Go to:
>> localhost/abc/jkfldjskljfdkls/home_othercontroller/some_rm
>> Get:
>> Home/OtherController, some_rm
> Similar to the above.
You are correct.
>> So I guess my questions are: why is it ignoring that first directory?
> I think you've hit on a weirdism of Apache changing the PATH_INFO if the real
> directory (in this case "abc") exists. Try changing the directory name to
> something else and see if that changes anything.
Ok, abc has actually always been an alias for a longer name and never
really did exist. Or is an alias the same?
>> And
>> do I actually have to put the startrunmode in the dispatcher? It seems to
>> be ignoring the one set in OtherController.pm.
> No, the start run mode should be executed if no run mode is given in the
> PATH_INFO. Try turning on debugging and see if you can get any more
> information.
I figured this one out. The problem was that I had the rule
':app/:rm' => {} and it should have been ':app/:rm?' => {}.
Thanks for all of your help, I really appreciate it.
-fREW
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