Al Morgan wrote:
> I've been studying Slash to better understand mod_perl. I think I
> understand everything that happens in the config file, except for this:
>
> <Location ~ "^/$">
> SetHandler "perl-script"
> PerlHandler Slash::Host::slashcode::rootHandler
> </Location>
>
> Apparently, whenever the user reqests the root document (normally
> index.html), it calls rootHandler, which redirects it to index.pl. My
> question is: What does the ~ "^/$" mean? I don't quite understand how
>
It is a regular expression:
the '~' tells apache it is a regex,
The '^' says starts with
The '$' says ends with
So in other words: If the location selected starts and ends with a / (which
would normally default to the index.html) it should be processed instead by
the command in the Location directive.
> they are doing what they're doing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al Morgan [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
