All:
I want to specify things like MySQL login info, names of tables
containing
user login information. I'd like to do it by putting it all into a
class
variable at server startup, using my startup.pl:
my $Account_Interface = $Exchange::MyAccount->init;
Then inside Exchange::MyAccount::init,
we have code like this:
$config{DBI_DSN} = Apache->server->dir_config('DBI_DSN');
and then of course we have the corresponding
PerlSetVar DBI_DSN "DBI:mysql:exchange_db"
What I'm running into is that dir_config always returns undef, no matter
what:
- PerlSetVars inside or outside the <Location> tag
- dir_config called at server startup or child startup
I've used dir_config before, but only at the PerlHandler level.
So what I'd like to know is: is there any way of picking up
configuration
info from the httpd-perl.conf at server startup? Picking all this stuff
up with the first request isn't always the most desirable way of doing
it,
especially if processing the directives takes any appreciable amount of
time. Putting config info into other files just spreads out what should
be in a single place.
Thanks,
Christopher Everett
