Or if you want to share some directives but not others, you can use
<IfModule mod_perl.c> or <IfDefined SomeSymbol> sections to block one
server from reading those portions of the config files.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lindner) wrote:
>If you are using shared repositories for the front-end and heavy
>server you can modify the filename used for .htaccess in the apache
>config file.  (See the AccessFileName entry)
>
>So, you could put the config for the heavy server in .htaccess_heavy
>and the front-end config in .htaccess.
>
>On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:05:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>   We are finally planning to "do the right thing" and have a light weight
and
>> heavy weight server. Our problem is that our (immediate) users set up
>> the protections for each directory with .htaccess files - and they use
>> PerlAuthzHandler and PerlAuthenHandlers - so to decide if a file can be
>> delivered requires modperl.
>> 
>>    So the solution I have come up with is to proxyPass any request 
>> requiring authentication to the modperl server.  Any existing solution
>> is welcome!  The approach I am trying though is:
>>    - write an authentication module (in C) to add to the light weight
>>      server.  All it does is bunce the request to the heavy server. This
>>      is figuring if apache invokes this module authentication is being
>>      attemtped.
>> 
>>   Problem: something is still seeing and complaining about the
>> PerlAuthenHandler stuff.  I have pulled (I believe) all the other
>> authentation and authorization modules - why and which apache aspect 
>> might be doing this???
>> 
>>  
>>   A concern: in my module I do a REDIRECT to the heavy weight.  Doesn't this
>> go back to the browser?  How do I do a proxyPass in C like the rewrite setup
>> does so well??
>> 
>>   THanks,  Bob Waldstein  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 
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