Tim Noll wrote: Tim, this question is not-related to TT, but a pure configuration issue. So in further postings about this issue please don't CC the tt list. (CC'ing only once now).
> I'm using mod_perl + Template Toolkit, and I'm having trouble getting Apache > to pass the DirectoryIndex to my handler. The handler is supposed to take > the path_info and pull a template of the same name from a subdirectory > called 'html'. > > This works fine for file names which do exist in the subdirectory. And, if > they don't exist, an error is correctly generated. However, if the path is > empty or '/', I expect Apache to include the DirectoryIndex (index.html) in > path_info or somewhere else that I can get to it. Unfortunately, Apache is > passing empty paths and '/' straight through to the handler, causing a file > not found error. > > Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place, but I've spent a lot of time > Googling and looking at the mod_perl guide, and I can't seem to find an > exact answer to my problem. This would seem to be a common issue. Can anyone > offer a solution? That's the job of mod_dir to do that translation from / to /index.html. Does it run? For example you can use Apache::ShowRequest to look what handlers are running. In your case the best thing is to write a Fixup handler and do what mod_dir does in Perl (should be two lines of code). Here is a section from our book with an example of using Apache::ShowRequest: =head2 Investigating the Request Phases Imagine a situation where you have a complex server setup in which many different Perl and non-Perl handlers participate in the request processing, and one or more of these handlers misbehave. A simple example would be where one of the handlers alters the request record, which breaks the functionality of the other handler. Or some handler invoked first in for any given phase of the process and returns C<OK> status, when it's not expected to do so, thus preventing other handlers from doing their job. You can't just add debug statements to trace the offender--there are too many handlers involved. The simplest solution is to get a trace of all registered handlers for each phase, stating whether they were invoked or not and what was the return status. Once such a trace is available, it's much easier to look only at the players who did something, thus narrowing the search path for a potential misbehaving module. The C<Apache::ShowRequest> module shows the phases the request goes through, displaying the module participation in each phase and respond codes. The content response phase is not run, but possible modules are listed as defined. To configure it, just add this snippet to I<httpd.conf>: <Location /showrequest> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler +Apache::ShowRequest </Location> Now if you want to see what happens when you access some URI, just add it after I</showrequest>. C<Apache::ShowRequest> uses the C<PATH_INFO> to get to the URI that should be executed. So to run I</index.html> with C<Apache::ShowRequest>, issue a request to I</showrequest/index.html>. For I</perl/test.pl>, issue a request to I</showrequest/perl/test.pl>. This module produces rather lengthy output, so we will show only one section from the report generated while requesting: I</showrequest/index.html>: Running request for /index.html Request phase: post_read_request [snip] Request phase: translate_handler mod_perl ....................DECLINED mod_setenvif ................undef mod_auth ....................undef mod_access ..................undef mod_alias ...................DECLINED mod_userdir .................DECLINED mod_actions .................undef mod_imap ....................undef mod_asis ....................undef mod_cgi .....................undef mod_dir .....................undef mod_autoindex ...............undef mod_include .................undef mod_info ....................undef mod_status ..................undef mod_negotiation .............undef mod_mime ....................undef mod_log_config ..............undef mod_env .....................undef http_core ...................OK Request phase: header_parser [snip] Request phase: access_checker [snip] Request phase: check_user_id [snip] Request phase: auth_checker [snip] Request phase: type_checker [snip] Request phase: fixer_upper [snip] Request phase: response handler (type: text/html) mod_actions .................defined mod_include .................defined http_core ...................defined Request phase: logger [snip] For each stage, we get a report of what modules could participate in the processing and whether they have taken any action. As you can see, the content response phase is not run, but possible modules are listed as defined. If we run a mod_perl script, the response phase looks like: Request phase: response handler (type: perl-script) mod_perl ....................defined _____________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ticketmaster.com http://apacheweek.com http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/