Rod Butcher wrote:
> I believe you need the trailing /
> i.e. Alias /perl/ "/home/httpd/perl/"
Yes, that was it...thanks!
>
> (but why not use Scriptalias ?)
Somewhere in the perl.apache.org docs it was suggested that Alias was
preferrable to ScriptAlias for mod_perl. I'll have another look.
>
> Rod
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Eberle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 12:48 AM
> Subject: Location directive not working for mod perl
>
> > I hope this is the correct mailing list for newbie mod perl questions.
> > I have just installed mod_perl 1.24 with Apache 1.3.14. Mod perl seems
> > to be running because upon startup of httpd, the Apache error log file
> > says
> >
> > Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_02-dev configured -- resuming normal
> > operations
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that the Location directive does not seem to
> > be working. I have the following in my httpd.conf file:
> >
> > Alias /perl/ "/home/httpd/perl"
> >
> > <Location /perl>
> > SetHandler perl-script
> > PerlHandler Apache::Registry
> > Options +ExecCGI
> > allow from all
> > PerlSendHeader On
> > </Location>
> >
> > I have placed a file called test-cgi in the directory
> > "/home/httpd/perl/". It is executable and runs if executed from the
> > command line. However, when I try to call this script through the
> > browser using the URL http://localhost/perl/test-cgi I get a 404 not
> > found error (The requested URL /perl/test-cgi was not found on this
> > server.The requested URL /perl/test-cgi was not found on this server.)
> >
> > The ScriptAlias directive works fine. I have:
> >
> > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/"
> >
> > and the same file (test-cgi) placed in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin
> > executes without problems.
> >
> > This all seems very simple so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
> > Any ideas anyone?
> >
> >
> >
