----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:11 PM
Subject: Loading Index.pl as the Root File
> 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
> they are doing what they're doing.
>
The "^/$" is a regular expression, signifying that it wants to find the
location that matches "/" between the start and the end of the line. So
it'll match only your root location. Actually the regular expression is
unnecessary here, a <Location /> would have been enough.
Now concerning what it does: it intercepts all requests for the root
location (for example www.example.com/ ), and calls rootHandler, as you
said. I don't think the index.html part will ever be handled, as Slash
handles the whole request.
Now, I would gladly give you any pointers to a good regular expression
tutorial, but I don't have any. I am sure that if you search around a little
(perl.com or the apache documentation would seem like a good place to
start), you can easily find some nice information.
Per Einar Ellefsen
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