I'm considering using <Perl> sections to dynamically configure my mod_perl apache server and am interested in hearing opinions from other users.

  1. Do you use <Perl> sections?
  2. What dynamic requirements were behind the change?
  3. What examples did you learn from? (Apache::httpd_conf?)
  4. What cool things do you do now?
  5. How do you provide individual overrides for particular locations or vhosts?
  6. Why not just use templated httpd.confs?
  7. Any tips or gotchas?
Any experiences appreciated, thanks,

Brad

I'm also still trying to work out how separate sections in different files interoperate and whether it's safe to open a DBI connection at setup time, but that's not part of the survey :)

In reply to Apache <Perl> sections survey by bsb

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