Location directive not working for mod perl

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Eberle

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?





Re: Location directive not working for mod perl

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Eberle

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?