hi, apache uses a simple technique for determining the path_info. it starts at your document root and looks for the directory you specified in your URI. it continues to go deeper in the directory structure until it encounters a directory(or file) that doesn't exist. when this happens the the path_info is set to rest of the URI (not including the last part which wasn't found!).
so in your case apache looks for $DOCROOT/debug this doesn't exist (presumably) in your $DOCROOT. so the path_info is set to whatever is left, ie nothing! if you tried to request www.host/debug/foo the path_info would be /foo (without the /debug part) if you created a directory called debug inside you docroot and you tried the previous example then you path_info would be empty. i hope this doesn't confuse you a a lot! best regards, giorgos Wes Cravens wrote: > Hello all, > > This is perhaps an apahce uri translation problem but: > > I am having a path_info problem... > > Synopsis. > > <Location /> > SetHandler perl-script > PerlHandler Module > </Location> > > Module.pm returns $r->path_info() in html to client. > > url: 'www.host/' returns '/' > url: 'www.host/debug' returns '' when I was expecting '/debug' > > Now I can get around this with $r->uri but want to make sure that I > undestand what I don't understand. > > Thanks for any help. > > Wes > > Rev. FPCED(UK) > y n=-09hu6+40563 > 2136+-*+96, > 3.-/n*+963.h
