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[Pas-dev] comingling cgi's with psp's

[Mental <Me...@Ne...>]

Hey. This is just an FYI, but when you setup pas with the following
method:

PerlInitHandler Apache::StatINC
PerlSetEnv PAS_BASE "/usr/local/httpd/"
PerlRequire /usr/local/httpd/src/startup.pl
<Location />
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler
</Location>

It kind of breaks other handlers you have for cgi's/whatnot.

What I've done, and what may save others a few minutes on apache.org's
site, is setup my environment to allow psp's and cgi's to coexist.

In the DocumentRoot's Directory section of your httpd.conf do this:

<Directory "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs">
    Options Indexes -FollowSymLinks +Includes MultiViews +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
<Files *.psp>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler
</Files>
</Directory>

This way your aliases like /server-info and /perl-status will continue to
be handled by their appropriate Handlers. 

Just a quick tip. I'll update the docs in cvs later tonight.

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Re: [Pas-dev] comingling cgi's with psp's

[Kyle R . B. <mo...@vo...>]

I'd also like to point out that you're setting up the Pas Request Handler
to handle your document root.  Of course even if you choose a path to
be handled by Pas, you could still use your type of configuration to 
allow .cgi's and .psp's to comingle in the same directory structure.


I'm curious - how does the configuration you've detailed affect registered
URIs for Page objects?  If I understand the configuration correctly,
then the Pas Request Handler is only invoked for *.psp requests, and
not for bare URIs (which is how the registered Page objects work).

Is there a way to configure the pas request handler for everything, and
then set up *.cgi to be handled by the normal cgi handler?

Kyle

> Hey. This is just an FYI, but when you setup pas with the following
> method:
> 
> PerlInitHandler Apache::StatINC
> PerlSetEnv PAS_BASE "/usr/local/httpd/"
> PerlRequire /usr/local/httpd/src/startup.pl
> <Location />
>   SetHandler perl-script
>   PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler
> </Location>
> 
> It kind of breaks other handlers you have for cgi's/whatnot.
> 
> What I've done, and what may save others a few minutes on apache.org's
> site, is setup my environment to allow psp's and cgi's to coexist.
> 
> In the DocumentRoot's Directory section of your httpd.conf do this:
> 
> <Directory "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs">
>     Options Indexes -FollowSymLinks +Includes MultiViews +ExecCGI
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> <Files *.psp>
>   SetHandler perl-script
>   PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler
> </Files>
> </Directory>
> 
> This way your aliases like /server-info and /perl-status will continue to
> be handled by their appropriate Handlers. 
> 
> Just a quick tip. I'll update the docs in cvs later tonight.
> 
> --
> Mental (Me...@Ne...)
> 
> There was a power outage at a department store yesterday.
> Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
> --Steven Wright
> 
> GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental.asc
> 
> 
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Re: [Pas-dev] comingling cgi's with psp's

[Kyle R . B. <mo...@vo...>]

One other point.  I think the way the Pas mod_perl Request Handler is set
up, it should return DECLINED unless it thinks it's supposed to handle
the request (i.e. if it's either a registered URI or a psp page).  What
that means is that for any other file type, Apache should be applying it's
usual rules to.  So CGIs should get executed if +ExecCGI is set and .cgi
is registered to be handled correctly.

Another possibility is to use stacked handlers - specify something like:

  <Location /pas/>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler Apache::PerlRun
  </Location>

I think if you do that, Apache will keep calling handlers until one
of them returns OK, or all of them have been called.


Kyle

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Re: [Pas-dev] comingling cgi's with psp's

[Kyle R . B. <mo...@vo...>]

> That doesnt happen. CGI's get served as text.

Ok, then it doesn't work ;^)

> > Another possibility is to use stacked handlers - specify something like:
> > 
> >   <Location /pas/>
> >     SetHandler perl-script
> >     PerlHandler Org::Bgw::Pas::RequestHandler Apache::PerlRun
> >   </Location>
> > 
> > I think if you do that, Apache will keep calling handlers until one
> > of them returns OK, or all of them have been called.
> > 
> 
> I'm trying that tonight.  

I think that should work.

> What I want ot be able to do is have psp's comingled iwth everything. I
> was planing on making /pas/ the uri start for all registred page objects.

That's probably a good approach and should work just fine.  The only
isuse I can see cropping up is with forward_request().

> So I was gonna have a 
> <Files *.psp> section in my docroot direcotry. And a <Location>PerlHandler
> sction for /pas/. I think it should do what I want.

Yeah, I like that approach.

Kyle

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