Trouble using dir_config for PerlSetVar inside Perl section

[Larry Leszczynski]

Hi all -

I'm having trouble using server->dir_config in my startup.pl to read
variables set by PerlSetVar inside a Perl section.  I'm using Perl 5.6.1,
Apache 1.3.27, and mod_perl 1.27.

In startup.pl I have:
   my $file = Apache->server->dir_config("CFG") || "";
   warn "Missing path to config file in httpd.conf" unless $file;

In httpd.conf, this works just fine:
   PerlSetVar CFG /path/to/file
   PerlRequire startup.pl

and this works fine too:
   PerlSetVar CFG /path/to/file
   <Perl>
      $PerlRequire = "startup.pl";
   </Perl>

But this does not work (CFG is not set in startup.pl):
   <Perl>
      push @{$Location{"/"}->{PerlSetVar}}, ["CFG", "/path/to/file"];
   </Perl>
   PerlRequire startup.pl

and this does not work either:
   <Perl>
      push @{$Location{"/"}->{PerlSetVar}}, ["CFG", "/path/to/file"];
      $PerlRequire = "startup.pl";
   </Perl>

It seems like this should work, right?  I'm pretty sure the syntax of the
"push" is OK because if I modify the syntax I get a message:
   (2)No such file or directory: <Perl>: PerlSetVar takes two arguments,
   Perl config var and value


Thanks,
Larry Leszczynski
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