Apache/Dir version 0.07
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This simple module is designed to be a partial replacement for the standard
Apache mod_dir module. One of the things that module does is to redirect
browsers to a directory URL ending in a slash when they request the directory
without the slash. Since mod_dir seems do its thing during the Apache response
phase, if you use a Perl handler, it won't run. This can be problematic if the
Perl handler doesn't likewise take the directory redirecting into account.
A good example is HTML::Mason. If you've disabled Mason's decline_dirs
parameter (MasonDeclineDirs 0 in httpd.conf), and there's a dhandler in the
directory /foo, then for a request for /foo, /foo/dhandler will respond. This
can wreak havoc if you use relative URLs in the dhandler. What really should
happen is that a request for /foo will be redirected to /foo/ before Mason
ever sees it.
This is the problem that this module is designed to address. Configuration
would then look something like this:
<Location /foo>
PerlSetVar MasonDeclineDirs 0
PerlModule Apache::Dir
PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
SetHandler perl-script
PerlFixupHandler Apache::Dir
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</Location>
Apache::Dir can also be configured to handle the request during the response
cycle, if you wish. Just specify it before any other Perl handler to have it
execute first:
<Location /foo>
PerlSetVar MasonDeclineDirs 0
PerlModule Apache::Dir
PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Dir HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</Location>
Dependencies
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mod_perl
Author
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David E. Wheeler <
[email protected]>
Copyright and License
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Copyright 2004-2011 by David Wheeler. Some Rights Reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
