> Yes, and No. Read it. It seems to cover more of doing things like that > in <Perl> sections. What I'm more curious is if it can be done during > this phase: > > PerlModule MyCatalystApp
yes. at least in mp1. see http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/modules/experimental/Apache-ReverseLocation-0.01.tar.gz for a bizarre yet working example of adding to the PerlSections namespace. fwiw, gozer tells me this is perfectly fine in mp2 as well. however, I have my doubts - PerlModule doesn't start the interpreter anymore, so you'd need to use PerlLoadModule to insert these into apache's config time. though I can't recall if we altered PerlLoadModule so it can be used without custom config directives (though I think gozer did that too). if not, you can trick the interpreter into starting with a dummy <Perl> section :) > > What I don't yet grasp is if adding to the httpd.conf at runtime is > limited to a particular phase of if I could have any mod_perl handler > actually alter the http config while serving live requests. well, you probably wouldn't want to do the latter - once you're serving a request it makes little sense to add a full <Location> or whatnot, since that directive would just disappear at the end of the request. you'd be better off just fiddling with the current request using stuff like $r->handler than thinking about how to add real httpd.conf directives at that point. > Could I have > a mod_perl page whereby the user submits a form, that in turn added a > Location directive to the runnin apache processes? yes, through means like $r->handler and whatnot. not really in terms of Location, at least not that I know about. but as I said, you probably wouldn't want to do that anyway. --Geoff
