Apache::AuthCookie woes

geektron has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This looks like a simple error to debug and solve, but I can't see in the actual code what the issue is ... The Error:

[Thu Mar  4 16:55:00 2004] [error] auth_type TestCookie::AuthCookieHan
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[Thu Mar  4 16:55:00 2004] [error] auth_name TestCookie
[Thu Mar  4 16:55:00 2004] [error] ses_key_cookie
[Thu Mar  4 16:55:00 2004] [error] uri /protected/
Can't locate object method "request" via package "Apache" at /home/htt
+pd/htdocs/login.cgi line 5.
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Looks all normal, since "can't find method foo" errors usually mean a package isn't used. but in my httpd.conf:


<Perl>
    use lib qw# /home/httpd/htdocs/libs #;
</Perl>
                                                                      
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PerlModule Apache::AuthCookie
PerlModule TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
PerlSetVar TestCookiePath /
PerlSetVar TestCookieLoginScript /login.cgi
PerlSetVar AuthCookieDebug 3
                                                                      
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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.
<Files LOGIN>
 AuthType TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler
 AuthName TestCookie
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler->login
</Files>
<Location /perl-status>
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Apache::Status
</Location>
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I'm using the sample config to make sure I can get things configured correctly. TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler gets called, and it looks like this:

package TestCookie::AuthCookieHandler;
use strict;
use Apache;
use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
use Apache::AuthCookie;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA);
                                                                      
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$VERSION = substr(q$Revision: 1.2 $, 10);
@ISA = qw(Apache::AuthCookie);
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( it's just Sample::AuthCookieHandler from the distro renamed and moved. )

so, i'm including the Apache module, and I have this as my server setup:

Server Version: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) Resin/2.1.11 PHP/4.3.1 mod_perl/1
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so i have a mod_perl enabled server, Apache::AuthCookie installed ... everything *should* work ... but it doesn't, and i'm lost ... any pointers?

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Re: Apache::AuthCookie woes by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 05, 2004 at 22:00 UTC
This probably means you don't have login.cgi configured to run under mod_perl and it's being run under mod_cgi instead.	[reply]
Re: Apache::AuthCookie woes by Prior Nacre V (Hermit) on Mar 06, 2004 at 20:01 UTC
I can't see `Apache::Registry` listed anywhere in your post. That will be why it can't find the `request()` method. Apache::Registry has details of adding this to your `httpd.conf` file. Depending on your setup, you may need to add `use Apache::Registry` to `login.cgi` or some module it calls. I usually like to keep my options open with something like: `use Apache::Registry; my $r; eval { $r = Apache->request }; if (defined $r) { $r->content_type(...); ... $r->send_http_header; } else { print "Content-Type: ... \n"; ... print "\n"; }` [download] That way your CGI script will work under both `mod_cgi` and `mod_perl` without modification. PN5	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Apache::AuthCookie woes by geektron (Curate) on Mar 07, 2004 at 00:12 UTC
yes, i was thinking about that after the first reply, that i don't remember if a `<PerlHandler>` is set up on that machine. That's what I'm going to check first. I just started mucking in that `httpd.conf` ... it's a workstation with a bunch of old crap left on it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]