Problem with Directory in Perl sections

[James Stalker]

Hi,

I have hit a problem with the latest couple of versions of mod_perl, and I wondered if 
anyone might know a solution.

We're using Apache 1.3.22 with mod_perl 1.26, and there appears to be a problem with 
the <Directory> directive in perl sections...
e.g.

$Directory{$DocumentRoot}={
    Options         =>  '-Indexes FollowSymLinks',
    AllowOverride   =>  'None',
    SetHandler      =>  'perl-script',
    PerlHandler     =>  'Apache::EnsEMBL::SendDecPage',
    order           =>  'deny,allow',
    allow           =>  'from all',
};

does not work in a <Perl> section but it works fine outside:

<Directory /mysql/ensembl/www/sanger-test/htdocs >
    Options         -Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride   None
    SetHandler      perl-script
    PerlHandler     Apache::EnsEMBL::SendDecPage
    order           deny,allow
    allow           from all
</Directory>

/perl-status reports that the former looks as I would expect:

%Directory = (
  '/mysql/ensembl/www/server/htdocs' => {
    'Deny' => 'from all',
    'AllowOverride' => 'None',
    'Order' => 'deny,allow',
    'PerlHandler' => 'Apache::EnsEMBL::SendDecPage',
    'Options' => '-Indexes FollowSymLinks',
    'SetHandler' => 'perl-script'
  },
);

There are no errors reported, but the handler simply doesn't kick in.  We have been 
using this config for some months now, and this worked fine in 1.21.  It stopped 
working by at least version 1.25.

Anybody have any ideas?

Regards,

James

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James Stalker
Senior Web Developer - Project Ensembl - http://www.ensembl.org