Apache::ASP #include file, relative filenames

2000-05-21 Thread Philip Mak 

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:

  So, there's no way in Apache::ASP to include a file by specifying a path
  relative to DOCUMENT_ROOT, or relative to the directory of the current
  file (which is not necessarily equivalent to the request URI, if the
  current file is included)?

 !--#include file= -- allows relative file specifications.
 Did it not work for you for some reason?

It does not work in this kind of situation:

/series/slayers/lina/index.inc does !--#include file="../index.inc"--
/series/slayers/index.inc does !--#include file="../index.inc"--

If I access http://.../series/slayers/lina/index.inc, then it will do the
first include correctly. But in the second include, it resolves the
path name relative to /series/slayers/lina/ instead of /series/slayers/,
so it ends up including /series/slayers/index.inc instead of
/series/index.inc.

I worked around this by doing "PerlSetVar IncludesDir /home/goamembers/www"
(which is my DOCUMENT_ROOT), and then using includes such as:

!--#include file="/series/slayers/index.inc"--
!--#include file="/series/slayers/lina/index.inc"--

-Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Apache::ASP #include file, relative filenames

2000-05-21 Thread Joshua Chamas 

Philip Mak wrote:
 
 On Sun, 21 May 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
 
   So, there's no way in Apache::ASP to include a file by specifying a path
   relative to DOCUMENT_ROOT, or relative to the directory of the current
   file (which is not necessarily equivalent to the request URI, if the
   current file is included)?
 
  !--#include file= -- allows relative file specifications.
  Did it not work for you for some reason?
 
 It does not work in this kind of situation:
 
 /series/slayers/lina/index.inc does !--#include file="../index.inc"--
 /series/slayers/index.inc does !--#include file="../index.inc"--
 

I see, yes this would not have worked, because Apache::ASP
does a chdir() to whereever the script is.  So what you could
do might be to have a header.inc which does something like...

% 
  use File::Basename;
  my $dirname = dirname($0);
  $dirname =~ s|^$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/?||;
  my $up = '';
  for(split(/\//, $dirname)) {
$up .= '../'; 
my $include = $up.'index.inc';   
if(-e $include) {
  $Response-Include($include);
}
  }   
%

--Joshua

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