On Fri, 5 May 2000, sadhanandham balaraman wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
> I'm facing a typical problem in Apache web server. The problem is that I
> want to call a perl script whenever a request is made to the server, and
> that script should be able to change the URI and submit to the server back.
>
> The thing I got from the net is that adding PerlscriptTransHandler
> directive will call a perl script, whenever request is made. The problem
> with this is that it disables Alias and ScriptAlias directives, so my other
> perl scripts won't run.
if your PerlTransHandler returns OK, then the mod_alias translate handler
is skipped. just change the uri in your TransHandler and return DECLINED
to let mod_alias do it's thing.
> The other thing is redirecting any request using RewriteRule. I used
> this to redirect any request to my perl script which again redirects to
> another document which is in same server by 'Location' header. The problem
> is that it goes to endless recursive request loop.
>
> So how to call a perl script or redirect the request to the SAME web
> server.
$r->internal_redirect should work. we'd need a tiny example that
reproduces the recursion problem to help with that.
