in reply to "proper" mod_perl config directives

Untested, but I often get this stuff right anyway {grin}: 
<Files index.pl>
SetHander perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
</Files>
DirectoryIndex index.pl index.html

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That'll try an index.pl file if it's present, otherwise fall back to an index.html, whenever you ask for a directory instead of a file.

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Re: &bull;Re: "proper" mod_perl config directives
by geektron (Curate) on Sep 02, 2003 at 19:01 UTC
    creating a bogus index.pl seems to have done the job along with the suggested fix.
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      Uh, why a bogus index.pl? Isn't your code to handle the directory in there?

      If not, you didn't spell things out very carefully. Do you have a handler that should apply only to directories? If so, it needs to simply decline anything it doesn't want to handle.

      I have an example of that at my mod_perl-enabled Picture handler, In particular, simply return DECLINED if content-type is not DIR_MAGIC_TYPE.

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        yes, the code is there to handle the directory ... more specifically, the whole site is handled by my handler.

        if i don't have some kind of index file in there, i get 403 Forbidden errors. if i put it in there, it works.

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