Geoffrey Young wrote: >>>>>Maybe there should be a word of warning added to the Testing document >>>>>for similar cases (unless I overread it of course ;-) >>> >>> >>>probably. patches welcome :) >> >> >>Along this lines, I was going to prepare a patch to make this a clearer >>but I couldn't find where extra.last.conf.in was documented (since I >>thought this would be a good place to explain what you might put into >>it). I search perl.apache.org and while there are several mentions of >>"extra.conf.in" I couldn't find any for "extra.last.conf.in". > > > hmm, maybe it isn't documented there, then. I know I wrote about it in an > article I did for perl.com
Turns out it was documented, but not as "extra.last.conf.in" but rather as anything that matches "/\.last\.(conf|pl).in$/". But regardless, here is a patch that tries to make things a little clearer. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
--- testing.pod.orig 2005-07-11 14:07:25.000000000 -0400 +++ testing.pod 2005-07-11 14:07:01.000000000 -0400 @@ -1237,7 +1237,11 @@ /\.last\.(conf|pl).in$/ -will be included very last in F<httpd.conf>. +will be included very last in F<httpd.conf>. This is especially useful +if you want to include Apache directives that would need a running Perl +interpreter (see L<When Does perl Start To Run|docs::2.0::user::handlers::server/When_Does_perl_Start_To_Run>) +without conflicting with Apache::Test's use of +C<L<PerlSwitches|docs::2.0::user::config::config/C_PerlSwitches_>>. Make sure that you don't try to create F<httpd.conf.in>, it is not going to work, since F<httpd.conf> is already generated by @@ -1284,11 +1288,20 @@ =item * +if the file F<t/conf/extra.last.conf.in> exists, it will be used to +generate F<t/conf/extra.last.conf> with C<@variable@> substitutions. + +=item * + if the file F<t/conf/extra.conf> exists, it will be included by F<httpd.conf>. =item * +if the file F<t/conf/extra.last.conf> exists, it will be included by +F<httpd.conf> after the F<t/conf/extra.conf> file. +=item * + if the file F<t/conf/modperl_extra.pl> exists, it will be included by F<httpd.conf> as a mod_perl file (PerlRequire).
