Mark, I think that I may be able to clarify this. I ran into the same type of problem a few weeks ago. I had always defined my handlers inside a "Location" block and couldn't get the DirectoryIndex to work properly. I solved my problem by calling my handler from within a "Directory" block instead.
You should be able to find the answer you're looking for on the following page. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/sections.html -Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc M. Adkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DirectoryIndex doesn't see SetHandler path > > > This is going to seem odd...obscure...dumb... > > I've been using code like this to set up handlers: > > <Location /some/path/index> > SetHandler perl-script > PerlResponseHandler Some::Handler > </Location> > > Now I'm using this code to set up handlers for individual pages. The > directive above is in a sense telling Apache "there is a directory > /some/path/index which contains files which should be processed via > Some::Handler" but in fact there is no such directory. There is just a > handler. So in my mind I'm defining a single page with a handler. > > All this works OK, weird though it may be, until I want a directory index. > Say I want to go to url: > > /some/path > > The DirectoryIndex directive doesn't allow me to say that 'index' is a > directory, only 'index.html'. That is to say, the following: > > DirectoryIndex index index.html > > doesn't cause Apache to automatically find /some/path/index, even > if I have > defined one using AddHandler. I'm assuming this is because there > is no such > file, the handler is attached to the /some/path/index directory, > there isn't > anything for Apache to find. > > For the moment I'm faking things out using the miracle of mod_rewrite: > > RedirectMatch ^/some/path/index\.html /some/path/index > > which makes it all work like I want. NOW Apache finds the > handler for some > reason. So I'm not complaining, and I don't need a fix, but I > wonder if I'm > missing something. > > * AddHandler attaches a handler to a set of files with a given suffix. > * SetHandler attaches a handler to a location (a directory, right?) > and all of the files therein. > * There isn't (?) a directive that attaches a handler to a single leaf > in the directory tree which may in fact be non-existent in such a > manner that the DirectoryIndex directive will find the leaf. > > Have I missed something? Am I abusing the tool? > > mma > >
