I'm sure I'm missing something trivial, but a quick Super Search didn't show me what. I'm trying to get HTML::Mason working from a non-root install. I've got a server with mod_perl set up, and I did manage to get all the required modules installed in /my/home/dir/lib/modules. Now, I'm trying to get apache to actually send mason requests to a certain directory. I created this .htaccess file: 
PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /my/home/dir/lib/modules
PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
<FilesMatch "\.(html|mas)$">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlSetVar MasonDataDir /my/home/dir/lib/mason
  PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</FilesMatch>

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But when I hit the server to this location, I get this error: 
[Thu Jul  8 14:08:03 2004] [alert] [client 206.243.134.74] /my/home/di
+r/www/mason/.htaccess: Can't locate /my/home/dir/lib/modules/HTML/Mas
+on/ApacheHandler in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i
+386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
+/5.8.3/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/l
+ib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_
+perl/5.005 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl . /usr/pair/apache/ /usr/pa
+ir/apache/lib/perl) at (eval 43) line 1.

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Notice that /my/home/dir/lib/modules doesn't show up in @INC. So what am I doing wrong here? Is there another way of modifying @INC from within .htaccess? Any hints welcome!

-- zigdon

In reply to Using HTML::Mason with a local install by zigdon

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