1. see Allowing Directory Requests in the mason administrators manual. you'll probably want something like PerlSetVar MasonDeclineDirs 0 in your Location segment.

2. your images are being served by mason, and are probably coming with the leading part of the HTML from the autohandler (or similar, depending on your setup.)

consider using a <LocationMatch ...> instead: 

<LocationMatch "\.html$">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
  PerlSetVar MasonDeclineDirs 0
</LocationMarch>
<LocationMatch "(\.m(html|txt|pl)?|dhandler|autohandler)/?$">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlInitHandler Apache::Constants::NOT_FOUND
  PerlSetVar MasonDeclineDirs 0
</LocationMatch>

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see Controlling Access via Filename Extension

In reply to Re: mod_perl and HTTP::Mason acting funky by mreece
in thread mod_perl and HTTP::Mason acting funky by Xidus

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