Re: passing an argument to startup.pl - RESOLVED

[Geronimo]

Many thanks to Jonathan Vanasco and Jeff Noakes for their respective solutions to this problem. I've implemented both; Jonathan's on a production unix server and Jeff's on a Win32 test box where apache runs as a service.   Very helpful.   Best Regards, Gerard   # "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." #   - Dr. Seuss   ----- Original Message ----- From: Geronimo To: modperl@perl.apache.org Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: passing an argument to startup.pl PROBLEM: I need to pass an argument to startup.pl, in order to associate Apache2 with a specific version of an app. The app version has a simple identifier, say 'dv1'. What I'm trying to do is emulate passing an argument on the command line, which will show up in @ARGV, like; $ /devel/startup.pl dv1   I've tried various things, like quoting the call to startup.pl in httpd.conf; PerlRequire "/devel/startup.pl dv1" which doesn't work, as PerlRequire sees dv1 as a second argument to itself. All the methods I've looked at for setting environment variables don't get visibility until the server is up and running, which is fair enough.   SOLUTION: None so far, except this workaround   # in http.conf: # fake addition to @INC PerlSwitches -I/devel/dv1 PerlRequire "/devel/startup.pl"   # in startup.pl .. pull /devel/dv1 off @INC with a grep   Any suggestions of a more worthy solution would be appreciated.   Thanks, Gerard   # "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." #   - Dr. Seuss