Hi all, I'm using a typical dual-server combination for mod_perl content on a selection of sites. Requests go to the vanilla Apache and a mod_rewrite/mod_proxy combo forward them on to the mod_perl Apache.
As part of this, I'm trying to allow a prefix to the URL path to set an environment variable I can then use in my mod_perl programs to determine databases, templates etc. The vanilla httpd.conf features a line thus: RewriteRule ^/(test|access|ewok)/(.*)$ http://spare.article7.co.uk:8080/page/$2 [P,E=A7_FRAMEWORK:$1,L] (ignoring the wrapping). I also set PerlPassEnv A7_FRAMEWORK in my mod_perl httpd.conf -- but that environment variable always remains undef. The order of the P,E,L flags doesn't seem to make a difference. I appreciate that this is perhaps more of a mod_proxy issue than a mod_perl one, but I suspect I'm not alone in having tried something similar. I haven't found anything in the guide that deals with this specifically (I really don't want to append the information as a query string), but if I've overlooked anything, I'd be very happy to be corrected. Many thanks in advance, Andrew. -- "It seems today that all you see are violins in movies and sax on TV."
