I recently set up an ftp-like webserver for my intranet and would now like to have Apache default to it rather than mod_autoindex.c. The server is a single perl script called Drall.

I have downloaded and tried to make sense of Apache::AutoIndex 0.08, which is a perl script that replaces mod_autoindex, but to no avail. The httpd.conf mod_dir command
'DirectoryIndex index.html /cgi-bin/drall.pl?left=$1'
is exactly what I need, but $1 is taken literally, unlike in
RedirectMatch ^/(.*) '/cgi-bin/drall.pl?left=$1'
(which redirects everything, not what I want).

Since httpd.conf can't offer me a solution, I turn back to the perl code of Drall. Looking at Apache::AutoIndex, I can't begin to decipher how it hooks in and the documentation for gettting the thing running is horrid. I know only that this has to do (probably?) with PerlTransHandler and PerlHandler. PerlTransHandler links to URI Translation, which is almost completely undocumented over at the mod_perl pages (what little they have is here).

In reply to setting up a perl module to replace Apache's autoindex by Anonymous Monk

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