I'm developing some web software. I'm testing on multiple apache/linux servers. I have a lib dir with my testing modules for each account, and for each cgi file, I have a use lib '/misc/home/path/lib';

So each account's cgi files need a diff use lib path. It's almost ok, I can run cli perl on these guys, still.. it's a pain.

Here's what I'm looking into..

• Is there a line to an .htaccess file that will include a path to seek lib in? So for each hosting account I could set that file up and forget the use lib in the cgi?
• Is there an init subroutine pre compile time that would by default look into the user's $home/lib dir for required modules?

Am I missing some more obvious solution? Keep in mind there is no root access.

udpate

Adding this to the .htaccess file:
SetEnv PERL5LIB '/path/you/want'; Works sometimes. It will not work if you use Taint mode, so.. no cigar.

Another interesting tidbit is Baselib.pm, but it requires BaseLib be installed .. so.. catch22 :).

It seemed intuitive to do use lib "$ENV{HOME}/lib";, but that is also not reliable. None of these accounts accept that.

One way that works with Taint:

BEGIN { 
 $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}=~m/^([\w\-\/]+)$/i; 
 eval "use lib '$1/../lib';"; 
}

# this is unreliable:
#BEGIN {
# use lib do {
#  $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}=~m/^([\w\-\/]+)$/i;
# } . '/../lib';
#}
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