William McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:33:59PM -0400, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
>>for a good discussion, and a fixup handler that will likely fix your
>>problem. you can also search the archives for the Apache::Dir discussion
>>that (IIRC) yielded that document.
>
>
> Geoff,
>
> I tried using Apache::Dir. The current version on CPAN only supports
> mp1. Adding support for mp2 was easy enough but yielded no beneficial
> results (i.e., I still get 404 errors and the Apache log error).
>
> I wrote to David W. who maintains the module; he had no further
> suggestions so I did some further debugging. It turns out that I'm not
> having a problem with appending a trailing slash; Apache seems to be
> doing this just fine with or without the Apache::Dir module.
>
> The problem I'm having is that Apache is not setting the DirectoryIndex
> to a valid filename. It is instead complaining that it's trying to serve
> a directory. This is probably because ModPerl::Registry is handling the
> directory as turning off the SetHandler allows those indexes to be
> served (albeit I'm getting the script displayed as a text file instead
> of run as a perl script).
hmm. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you today, but I had something
unexpected come up. I'll be rolling rc5 tomorrow, but if you want to create
a bug tarball for me I'll look into it with whatever resources I can
scrounge up.
in the meanwhile here's my preliminary analysis...
SetHandler is forcing the handler to be mod_perl, but really mod_dir needs
to step in and handle the / -> DirectoryIndex conversion. so... what I would
do is alter that fixup handler to do something like this
if ($r->handler('perl-script') && -d $r->filename && $r->is_initial_req) {
$r->hander(Apache2::Const::DIR_MAGIC_TYPE);
}
or somesuch. basically, what you want to happen is for mod_dir to apply the
directory index and issue it's normal internal_direct to mod_perl. un-doing
mod_mime's SetHandler for just the main request ought to do that.
however, I am on some severe pain killers at the moment, so who knows...
>
> I also searched the archives for Apache::Dir as well as the Apache log
> error but could not find a discussion about this issue. Any more ideas
> for me?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108431004200002&r=1&w=2
--Geoff
