Andrew Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Feb 18, 2002: > 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:$1,L] > > (ignoring the wrapping). I also set PerlPassEnv A7_FRAMEWORK in my > mod_perl httpd.conf -- but that environment variable always remains > undef. The order of the P,E,L flags doesn't seem to make a difference.
As others pointed out, you cannot set envivonment variables in the vanilla and expect them to appear out of nothing in the mod_perl server. I have had a similar Problem and got by it like this. You can have two RewriteRules, one in the vanilla and a corresponding in the mod_perl: vanilla: RewriteRule ^/(test|access|ewok)/(.*)$ http://spare.article7.co.uk:8080/ENV_A7_FRAMEWORK/$1/page/$2 [P,E=A7_FRAMEWORK:$1,L] or, if you don't need A7_FRAMEWORK in the vanilla you can omit it here: RewriteRule ^/(test|access|ewok)/(.*)$ http://spare.article7.co.uk:8080/ENV_A7_FRAMEWORK/$1/page/$2 [P,L] mod_perl: RewriteRule ^/ENV_([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*)$ $3 [E=$1:$2,PT,L] I agree, its a big hack, but it works :-) HTH, Hans
