> Here's what Geoffrey Young said, you seem to have missed it:
>
> > you can't use $s (the server record) to capture PerlSetVar that exist
> on a per-directory basis (within a <Location> or <Directory> block). try
> > Apache->request->dir_config('BlaTest');
> >
> > instead. you should use $s->dir_config() for items set on a
> per-server basis only, not per-directory.
>
> As far as I understand him, you can use Apache->request inside the
> startup.pl script (try it!)
no, you can't use Apache->request from a startup.pl script - I must have
missed the startup.pl requirement in the original post.
but the rest is true, though, and Stas provided more details in a later
post as well. additionally, recipe 17.1 in the cookbook talks about
this exact issue.
HTH
--Geoff
