[Mason] troubles using comp_root = '/' with mason 1.0

[Doug H. <dh...@uc...>]

Hi:  I have been happily using Mason for a while now, but recently I had to
change my comp_root to '/' (I've started using mason to run some other sites 
on my web server, and there are files all over my file system that need to be
served).  I would always get this error message when serving all files:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
System error

while serving trillian.cosmic.ucar.edu /DBif/tableselect.mason
exec: first argument (home/httpd/html/DBif/tableselect.mason) must be an
absolute component path or a component object at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTML/Mason/Request.pm line 124, <GEN0> line
2.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tracked this down to the file:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTML/Mason/Resolver/File.pm

In order to get this to work for me, I had to put in a simple fix.  Here is the
patch:

*** File.pm     Mon May 21 17:03:33 2001
--- File.pm.old Sat Aug 19 01:56:08 2000
***************
*** 92,100 ****
      foreach my $root (@roots) {
        if (paths_eq($root,substr($file,0,length($root)))) {
            my $path = substr($file,length($root));
-           $path = '/' . $path if ($root eq '/');  # added 5/14/2001
-                                                   # D. Hunt when comp_root
-                                                   # changed to '/'
            $path =~ s/\/$// unless $path eq '/';
            return $path;
        }
--- 92,97
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Has anyone had this problem before?  Is there a nicer way around this?

Please respond to me directly, as I am not subscribed to this list.

Many thanks, 

  Doug Hunt
                                                                                                                                 


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