yes, i've been posting this for a couple days now, trying to get through it ....

I have logging in via Apache::AuthCookie working, but I can't get logging *out* to work. (logging out was the real reason for using Apache::AuthCookie and not just AuthBasic in apache ).

here's everything i *think* is relevant to my server's configuration 


NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.50
<VirtualHost 10.0.0.50>
ServerName brian.lnstar.com
                                                                      
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<Perl>
        use lib qw# /home/httpd/htdocs/libs #;
</Perl>
                                                                      
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PerlModule Apache
PerlModule Apache::Registry
PerlModule Apache::AuthCookie
PerlModule TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
PerlSetVar TestCookiePath /
PerlSetVar TestCookieLoginScript /login.pl
PerlSetVar TestCookieExpires +2h
PerlSetVar AuthCookieDebug 3                                          
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<Files ~ "^\.pl">
#<Location />
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::Registry
   Options +ExecCGI
   allow from all
   PerlSendHeader On
#</Location>
</Files>
                                                                      
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# These documents require user to be logged in.
<Location /protected>
 AuthType TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
 AuthName TestCookie
 PerlAuthenHandler TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler->authenticate
 PerlAuthzHandler TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler->authorize
 Require user programmer
</Location>
                                                                      
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#this is the action of the login.pl script above.
<Location /LOGIN>
 AuthType TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
 AuthName TestCookie
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler->login
</Location>
                                                                      
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<Location /logout>
 AuthType TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
 AuthName TestCookie
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler->logout
</Location>
                                                                      
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<Location /perl-status>
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Apache::Status
</Location>
                                                                      
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</VirtualHost>

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logging in ( trying to access the /protected dir ) works properly with all the samples out of the distro.

logging out is sending me just the logout script back as plaintext. I've turnout on PerlSendHeader. i thought that would cover it as a blanket case. just in case ( well, it's still in the sampl), logout.pl has this line: 

 
$r->content_type("text/html");
$r->status(200);
$r->send_http_header;

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which should also send the right header.

and on a side ( but related ) note, if i change the 

<Files>

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to a  <Location> directive, nothing works .... attempting to enter the /protected directory which fires off the AuthCookie handler give me: 
access to /home/httpd/htdocs/protected/index.html failed for 10.0.0.50
+, reason: file permissions deny server execution

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although all of my perms are OK, or at least wide open ( 777 ) for now, just to get things working. even my TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler module is 777 ...

I've been scanning the horsey book, going through the mod_perl FAQ ... and i can't find a thing.

i know i'm missing something obvious, aren't i?

In reply to more mod_perl configuration woes by geektron

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