in reply to Files directive in mod_perl config

i get a 404 for /LOGIN (...) <Files LOGIN>

IIRC, <Files> works only for existing files. Try using <Location> instead.

Note that it is not mod_perl configuration but Apache configuration. I think your question is more or less off topic here.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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Re: Re: Files directive in mod_perl config
by perrin (Chancellor) on Mar 08, 2004 at 20:57 UTC
    That's correct, <Files> is for things like "*.pl", not for literal URLs.
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      that's nice, but i guess the perldoc is f**ked for Apache::AuthCookie?

      a straight cut-n-paste from perldoc Apache::AuthCookie 

              # This is the action of the login.pl script above.
        <Files LOGIN>
         AuthType Sample::AuthCookieHandler
         AuthName WhatEver
         SetHandler perl&#8208;script
         PerlHandler Sample::AuthCookieHandler&#8208;>login
        </Files>

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      so ... i'm even *more* confused.
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        Looks like that should say this:

        <Location /LOGIN>

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        So try that, and if it works you can send a patch for the docs.
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Re: Re: Files directive in mod_perl config
by geektron (Curate) on Mar 08, 2004 at 21:42 UTC
    OK, that starts to work ... now the cookie doesn't seem to get set correctly.

    but that also means that the docs are fubar. grrr.

    EDIT:after checking the error_log, the cookie is getting set with an expiration date in the past, which is obviously an invalid cookie...

    EDIT2:invalid cookie was invalid password. with the right password, i get: 

    access to /home/httpd/htdocs/protected/index.html failed for 10.0.0.50
+, reason: file permissions deny server execution

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    file permissions are OK .... 
    [root@machine protected]# ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar  4 16:24 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Mar  8 10:31 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           31 Mar  4 16:24 index.html

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    the stupid Q: *what* file permissions?

    programming's hard. let's go shopping!

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      Most likely that means that login.pl (or whatever you called your login script) is not executable.
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