Exempt a directory from ?

2001-04-04 Thread Richard Anderson 

I need to specify an authentication handler (in lieu of Basic or Digest) for all 
directories in htdocs/ EXCEPT one, htdocs/bin/.  How can I do this?  I don't want to 
specify another authentication handler for /htdocs/bin, I just want to exempt it.

Here's my Location block:


   AuthType WWW::AuthCookieHandler
   AuthName HMAC
   PerlAuthenHandler WWW::AuthCookieHandler->authenticate
   PerlAuthzHandler WWW::AuthCookieHandler->authorize
   Require valid-user


How can I exempt htdocs/bin from this?

Richard Anderson, Ph.D.  www.unixscripts.com
Perl / Java / SQL / Unix   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raycosoft, LLC   Seattle, WA, USA

Read file at startup, access data during request?

2001-03-29 Thread Richard Anderson 

I want to read and parse a file when Apache mod_perl starts and have access to the 
data while my mod_perl methods are processing the request.  The most obvious approach 
(to me) is to put the reading/parsing code at the beginning of my mod_perl module, 
outside of my methods, and load the data into a package array variable that my methods 
can access during request processing.

However, I want to put the pathname of the file (relative to ServerRoot) in the 
httpd.conf file as a PerlSetVar.  I don't see any way to access the value of a 
PerlSetVar until the request phase.  In other words, in the module code that runs at 
startup time, I want to do this:

my $file = $r->server_root_relative($r->dir_config('SharedSecretKeyFile'));

except I don't have the Apache Request object ($r).

Am I completely on the wrong track?  Is there some way to access a PerlSetVar without 
the request object?

Richard Anderson, Ph.D.  www.unixscripts.com
Perl / Java / SQL / Unix   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raycosoft, LLC   Seattle, WA, USA