Disabling mod_perl on some files / folder?

ultranerds has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I'm trying to work out how to disable mod_perl for JUST SOME files/a folder.

I have used the following to disable mod_perl on other servers:

    <Directory /srv/www/foo.pro/www/cgi-bin/trust/admin>
        SetHandler cgi-script
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    </Directory>

    <FilesMatch "(user)\.(cgi)$">
        SetHandler cgi-script
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    </FilesMatch>
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Here is the full host entry in Apache:

<Virtualhost *:8181>

    LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so

    ServerName foo
    DocumentRoot /srv/www/foo.pro/www
    ErrorLog /srv/www/foo.pro/logs/error.log

    PerlRequire  /srv/www/foo.pro/startup.pl
    PerlModule Apache2::Reload
    PerlInitHandler Apache2::Reload
    PerlModule Apache2::RequestRec

    <Directory "/srv/www/foo.pro/www">
        Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /srv/www/foo.pro/www/cgi-bin

    <Location /cgi-bin>
        SetHandler perl-script
        AddHandler perl-script .cgi
        PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
        PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Location>


    <Location />
        LimitRequestBody 5242880
    </Location>


    <Directory /srv/www/foo.pro/www/cgi-bin/trust/admin>
        SetHandler cgi-script
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    </Directory>

    <FilesMatch "(user)\.(cgi)$">
        SetHandler cgi-script
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    </FilesMatch>


</VirtualHost>
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My software is:

Server version: Apache/2.4.25 (Ubuntu) Server built: 2016-12-21T09:13:44 mod_perl: 2.000010

I don't understand why it still insists on running all the scripts under mod_perl (I need to disable the admin one, otherwise we get some caching... and user.cgi I need to disable, as it seems like mod_perl breaks sendmail!)

Thanks in advance

Andy

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Re: Disabling mod_perl on some files / folder? by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2017 at 10:50 UTC
If you don't want `mod_perl` to apply to a file, don't name the file `.cgi`. I don't think that `mod_perl` breaks sendmail, but maybe `sendmail` cannot be started from the user your webserver resp. script runs under. Also, consider simply using MIME::Lite or Net::SMTP.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Disabling mod_perl on some files / folder? by ultranerds (Hermit) on Apr 06, 2017 at 11:27 UTC
Thanks. Maybe I will look into Net::SMTP. I'm only using sendmail as it's the built in method of this script, and I really don't want to have to re-write all it's emailing functions just to make it work on mod_perl.	[reply]