----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Mishkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <modperl@perl.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [mp2] working directory of scripts
Hi Sean, thanks for the reply.
However, my problem is that the working directory is set to the root of my filesystem, not the document root. I'm not sure an alias would help here;
Where the document root is set doesn't have anything to do with using Alias or ScriptAlias. These directives just map a physical file location to a url. This is equivalent to using a symlink (with better maintainability) within the document root.
Another issue: is your document root really set to '/'? That seems like a very large security issue!
I would really look at the documentation about url mapping (that I sent earlier) or, alternatively, using a set of rewrite rules. Have you tried these? If so, why didn't they work? I am relatively new to web development myself, so perhaps I am missing the point....
Sean
the only thing I can think of (other than using chdir()--which would
involve changing all the scripts for the webapps I'm using) would be to
make symlinks at the root of my filesystem pointing down to where stuff is.
That doesn't seem like a good idea, and there'd have to be one pointing to
each directory where there was a script that used relative pathnames.
--Geoff Mishkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sean Davis wrote:
Geoff,
You may want to set an alias for the directory for your scripts. You could do something like (from apache2 docs):
the Alias directive will map any part of the filesystem into the web space. For example, with Alias /docs /var/web
the URL http://www.example.com/docs/dir/file.html will be served from
/var/web/dir/file.html. The ScriptAlias directive works the same way, with
the additional effect that all content located at the target path is
treated as CGI scripts.
Check here for more details.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/urlmapping.html
Sean
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Mishkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <modperl@perl.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: [mp2] working directory of scripts
I've got mod_perl (version 1.99.11) all up and running on Apache (version
2.0.52), but the working directory of my scripts is always set to / when
mod_perl runs them, instead of being the directory the script is in. This
wreaks havoc if the scripts are using relative pathnames. I was able to
solve the problem with loading extra Perl modules by adding *use lib
qw(/var/www/localhost/perl/mt/lib);* to my mod_perl startup script, but
that doesn't help if my site scripts uses relative paths for other
things.
I looked through the docs and configuration directives but didn't find
anything appropriate, please tell me if I'm missing something. I asked
in my distro's (Gentoo) forum but haven't gotten a reply (or even many
views :P). I also browsed this list but didn't turn up anything that
looked related. How do I make mod_perl set the working directory of each
script the way I want? Or is there a reason that it always sets the
working directory to /?
--Geoff Mishkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
