Michele Gherlone wrote: > Hi all, > I hope this message is appropriate here and won't break any of the holy > rules of the list...
I doubt it :) > I've recently upgraded my production environment to modperl 2.0.1 and > Apache 2.0.54 under linux and Mason 1.29_02. I run a pretty complicated, > but powerful configuration and everything is ok. Porting all of my stuff > to MP2, I really felt that it is not yet documented as one would expect. sorry about that. > For example I'd like to know more about Apache's request life cycle. I > scanned all the documents available online, but didn't really find > something which explains in details when the major hooks of > Perl*Handlers really happen (and their relationships with Apache's > modules). um... there's quite a bit on this, actually. for the most part the apache request lifecycle is the same as with apache 1.3.X, so you can use that documentation as your guide - all of the available mod_perl books cover this, for example. there's also this http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html which should help. > I try to ask here a few questions (no homework -:): well, homework exists for a reason, and perl.apache.org is your friend. > -when does mod_dir really make its job? during fixups, but that's not a mod_perl question :) > -How comes that, if serving a directory under SetHandler modperl, one > can have mod_dir doing its job by means of a PerlFixupHanlder, simply > setting $r->handler('APACHE_MAGIC_DIR') and returning OK? because mod_dir looks at r->handler when it runs, and it runs after mod_perl :) > -Does this mean that the cycle has to restart, since the > PerlResponseHandler (or eventually e default-handler) is never run? yes. either transparent to your browser (in the case of "url/" to "/url/index.html" or non-transparent (in the case of "url" to "url/"). > -Why does this simple PerlTypeHandler: > package Apache::MIMEMagic; > (if applied server wide) completely break for ALL of the directories > under DocumentRoot the behaviour of mod_dir (DirectoryIndex lists > completely ignored)? because it's being applied server-wide, without regard to whether the request is a for a directory or not. > Hoping I won't get neither ignored nor flamed nope, but you have lots of reading to do. I'd suggest one of the books from the mod_perl site to get your started understanding apache basics. --Geoff
