Naming the path to the config file in an httpd conf will certainly work.
In my case, the path the config file is hard coded in the method that reads the
config as it is not something that changes.
Here is on of my httpd conf file (a separate file loaded in the http
configuration directory so your install process doesn't have to change the
actual httpd.conf):
PerlModule Your::App
PerlPostConfigHandler Your::App::httpd_start
<Location /foo/app>
SetHandler modperl
PerlResponseHandler +Your::App
# Apache::DBI needs GlobalRequest
PerlOptions +GlobalRequest
</Location>
The httpd_start method gets called at apache startup time, and reads the config
in once.
Also, one other possible advantage to YAML is that YAML is not perl, so if you
have a mixed language env,
it is easy to share/move/port your config to the language of your choice.
YAML has pretty good support across the common languages you will find in the
LAMP world.
BTW, if you haven't already done so, I recommend becoming familiar with the
handlers and their life cycles:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/server.html
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/http.html#HTTP_Request_Cycle_Phases
Have fun,
-- jeff
From: Jerry Pereira <online.je...@gmail.com<mailto:online.je...@gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:41:13 -0500
To: Jeff McCarrell <jmcca...@akamai.com<mailto:jmcca...@akamai.com>>
Cc: "modperl@perl.apache.org<mailto:modperl@perl.apache.org>"
<modperl@perl.apache.org<mailto:modperl@perl.apache.org>>
Subject: Re: Best approach to store Application Configuration
please correct me if I am wrong, I should be using tool like
YAML/Config::General for application configuration storage and reteieval, and
load them on startup using startup.pl<http://startup.pl> script? That would
mean i will have to store the name of configuration file some where (probabaly
in mod_perl configuration block in httpd.conf).
