On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:41:31PM +0100, Miroslav Madzarevic wrote:
> The scenario:
> There are two folders
> /cgi-bin with plain perl cgi
> /mod-perl with Apache::Registry scripts
>
> The application is being moved from cgi to mod_perl (Apache::Registry) one
> script at a time.
> My friend has a strange idea.
> He wants to mix cgi-bin & mod_perl by testing all of the scripts in
> cgi-bin and putting one cgi-script at a time into mod-perl folder.
> He wants to do this internaly in Apache, changing the request for
> a particular script so for example when you reference /cgi-bin/some_scr.pl
> you actually end with /mod-perl/some_scr.pl. He doesn't want to
> change the <a href> code from html files to stop pointing at /cgi-bin.
> By moving all of them one at a time all of the application will
> eventually end up working under mod_perl.
>
> How can he do that ?
>
> He thought of using mod_proxy or mod_rewrite.
> The scripts are badly written and have been developed for three years
> so far by various perl "programmers".
I'd use mod_rewrite or, even better, use the power of the
PerlTransHandler.. Activate the following handler by adding
PerlTransHandler Moo::my_trans_handler
to your httpd.conf. In your example it will check for
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/some_scr.pl_mod_perl_me
If that file exists we rewrite the URL to use the /mod-perl prefix
internally.
sub Moo::my_trans_handler {
my $r = shift;
my $uri = $r->uri;
return DECLINED unless ($uri =~ s,^/cgi-bin/,,);
if (-f "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/${uri}_mod_perl_me") {
$uri = = "/mod-perl/$uri
$r->uri("/mod-perl/$uri");
}
return DECLINED;
}
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