I'm trying to implement a system for skinnable websites. I currently have one set up where all of the content pages are CGI scripts and they use HTML::Template to apply the skins. However, an URL will always point to a .cgi file. For example: http://foo.bar.bah/~stesla/skinned.cgi

What I want to do is make it so that, rather than having a CGI for each individual page, I want to be able to just have a template of some variety (I haven't fully designed it since I know this technical issue is still in my way). So that I can have the URL be: http://foo.bar.bah/~stesla/skinned.html but still have it run through the Perl that does the templating.

Clearly this is a job for mod_perl, however, it seems that what I want is a PerlTransHandler, and the documentation tells me that I cannot put a PerlTransHandler into a .htaccess file. Since I don't have access to the server-wide Apache configuration, I have to do any configuring in an .htaccess file.

Any suggestions?

In reply to Alternatives to PerlTransHandler? by SamQi

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