SPUG: mode_perl

[Alan]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:27:19PM -0800, Luis Medrano wrote:
> List,
> 
> Question,
> 
> I have a web server with multiple domains and I trying to do the following using mode_perl:
> 
> http://domain1.com/perl
> 
> pull a web page and add the word perl which is on the url or if I have http://domain.com/linux put the word linux on the webpage. My question is how I can do this?..

If I remember right, you use something like this:

# Have apache put the /words url under control of the My::Words perl
# module.

<Location /words>
	SetHandler perl-script
	PerlHandler My::Words
</Location>


# In the My::Words module:
sub handler {
   my $r = shift;
   # send the page headers
   $r->content_type('text/html');
   $r->send_http_header;
   # get the path that is passed to this module
   my $words = $r->path_info();
   $r->print($words);
}


Basically if you have /words under the control of mod_perl, when you go
to the url of http://server.com/words/perl, everything past /words can
be retrieved with the path_info() function, and then you can do whatever
you want with it.

Note the above code should work, but hasn't been tested.

alan


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