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sumdeus (4830)

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Journal of sumdeus (4830)

Wednesday February 25, 2004

01:08 PM

mod_perl, grrr

[ #17620 ]

I've been messing around with mod_perl and template toolkit for the last few days. I've been reading through a lot of information on the both. Before I started this, I knew how they both worked, but had never actually created a mod_perl installation from scratch. Now I have my own!

So I'm really only trying to do something simple with them both to begin, I want the following:

Requests to /foo.htm, which is actually a template, is taken care of by mod_perl

Seems simple enough? Here's the setup I have right now... all requests to /foo.html are converted using mod_rewrite to /mod-perl/handler.pl?file=foo.html. So I have Apache::Registry as the real "handler".

What I'd really like, is to have my own handler, which I "attempted" without success. You will want to ask, "what was the problem"? Of course, I'd answer, with a smart ass smile, "it didn't work!". No,no, the problem was that it didn't seem like it made sense in this case... perhaps overkill? I just don't know the most appropriate way to map a request for an html file through a custom mod_perl handler to template toolkit. Is there some 'industry' standard? I can't find any useful examples, all I find are the generic "do-this" tutorials... even in the safari/oreilly books. Maybe I'm browsing the wrong one!

Any hints ,URLS's, or book names would be greatly appreciated for this mod_perl administrating neophyte.

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Apache::Template (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
See Apache::Template - like Apache::Registry, but for templates instead of CGI.pm scripts.
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- Re:Apache::Template (Score:1)
  
  by sumdeus (4830)
  
  Thanks Randal. Now all I have to do is figure out how in the hell to get it installed without gcc on the machine.
  - Without gcc? (Score:2)
    
    by rafael (2125)
    
    What's your OS ? and how did you install mod_perl without gcc :) ?
    - Re:Without gcc? (Score:1)
      
      by sumdeus (4830)
      
      Dare I say it's a hosting company... where they/I have about 200 perl modules installed, but for some reason this isn't one of them. They don't have gnu tools for security reasons, of course for another 15 bucks a month I can get them. I'm stuck with them for another 1/2 a year, so I have to make due. Unfortunately I need gcc for the xs stuff.
mapping URLs to template files (Score:1)

by perrin (4270)

First off, I am not a fan of Apache::Template, or of mapping your URLs directly to the name of a template file. I think the URL and the name of the file you're going to run should have only a loose mapping, therefore I usually just map my URL to a handler, and then let the handler decide which template to run based on what it's doing. For example, requesting /login/ might result in running login_form.html, or maybe login_error.html, etc.
However, if I were trying to do what you are doing (map /foo.html to
- Re:mapping URLs to template files (Score:1)
  
  by sumdeus (4830)
  
  Very helpful, and nice since I don't need to install any additional modules. I will goof around with the handler... I was using Location directive instead of the Files so things were a little goofy.
  
  Appreciate the comment.