I want to read and parse a file when Apache mod_perl starts and have access to the
data while my mod_perl methods are processing the request. The most obvious approach
(to me) is to put the reading/parsing code at the beginning of my mod_perl module,
outside of my methods, and load the data into a package array variable that my methods
can access during request processing.
However, I want to put the pathname of the file (relative to ServerRoot) in the
httpd.conf file as a PerlSetVar. I don't see any way to access the value of a
PerlSetVar until the request phase. In other words, in the module code that runs at
startup time, I want to do this:
my $file = $r->server_root_relative($r->dir_config('SharedSecretKeyFile'));
except I don't have the Apache Request object ($r).
Am I completely on the wrong track? Is there some way to access a PerlSetVar without
the request object?
Richard Anderson, Ph.D. www.unixscripts.com
Perl / Java / SQL / Unix [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raycosoft, LLC Seattle, WA, USA
