I'm having some problems setting Embperl_Object_Fallback correctly. What I want to do is allow "virtual urls". I want to purposely link to urls that do not exist. These urls would logically reside below a directory called /catalog. The Embperl fallback file inside /catalog would parse the remainder of the requested url and perform some database access based on which url was requested. In essence, the fallback file becomes a directory handler. However, I only want it to handle accesses to directories that are not found. I was able to tweak my settings to send directory requests to my Embperl fallback, but it is happening even to valid directories. Any suggestions? Yes - I could use a query string to produce the same results, but I want to achieve the clean look and feel that the user thinks they are simply navigating a directory structure. My configuration is below.
A better way to do this, is to use Embperl application object, e.g.
Embperl_Object_App myapp.pl
This should conatain some perl code and a sub init, which is called before
your pages are requested. You can change the filename and do your database
accesses herein.
See eg/web/epwebapp.pl for an example
I was able to get this working for me using the application object. However, there is one caveat for anyone perusing the archives. Rather than a full-fledged virtual url, I am only able to get a virtual file. The directory tree in the url must exist, but not necessarily the file. This makes sense because Embperl::Object needs a valid directory structure to traverse in order to find the application object file.
-Derrick
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