If I understand your question correctly, you want to know if you need to include ...

use Apache::Registry;

... in your scripts. The answer is no.

Apache::Registry is a special type of module known as a mod_perl handler. To oversimplify things a bit, it reverses the normal relationship and 'uses' your script :-)

The configuration snippet you quoted is a way of telling Apache that any URL that starts /perl/ should be handled by Apache::Registry which in turn will look in /perl/apache/scripts/ for a specific script to handle each request. This is an alternative to using Apache's 'ScriptAlias' directive to have requests that start /cgi-bin/ handled by mod_cgi.

Setting up a handler this way affects all scripts in the directory.

Update: I forgot to mention that your coding needs to be a bit more careful under Apache::Registry than under CGI. Make certain your script runs with 'use strict;' and make sure that any global variables are declared with 'our' rather than 'my'. You'll also want to check the error log for warnings.

In reply to Re: Apache::Registry by grantm
in thread Apache::Registry with CPanel by Andy

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