in reply to mod_perl, PerlSetEnv, and PERL5LIB

PerlSetVar PERL5LIB /home/httpd/website.com/libs
uhm, i think this is the wrong way to set an environment variable. as the docs say, variables set by PerlSetVar are only available to the apache API: mod_perl

so just use PerlSetEnv, as you did in the title of this node...

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Re^2: mod_perl, PerlSetEnv, and PERL5LIB
by geektron (Curate) on Jul 28, 2004 at 15:31 UTC
    well, i changed the modperl.site.conf (that's loaded by the main httpd.conf via Include this morning to read as such: 
    PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /home/httpd/website.com/libs

PerlModule RemoteAuthentication
PerlSetVar websitePath /testMemberArea/
PerlSetVar websiteLoginScript /apps/login.pl
PerlSetVar websiteDomain .website.com
PerlSetVar websiteExpires +1h

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    and the VH.conf to read: 
    ## These documents require user to be logged in.
<Directory /home/httpd/website.com/html/testMemberArea>
 AuthType RemoteAuthentication
 AuthName website
 PerlAuthenHandler RemoteAuthentication->authenticate
 PerlAuthzHandler RemoteAuthentication->authorize
 require valid-user
</Directory>

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    and that looks right to me, but i still get: 
     sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest

Syntax error on line 7 of /etc/httpd/conf/VH/modperl.website.com:
Can't locate RemoteAuthentication.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/
+perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/per
+l5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-l
+inux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/ven
+dor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/
+5.8.0 . /usr/ /usr/lib/perl) at (eval 7) line 3.

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    i've tried things like: 
    PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB PERL5LIB:/home/httpd/website.com/libs

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    to no avail ...
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      hmm, sorry, i thought it would work... (googling for it also suggests it should). anyway, i'd go for the startup.pl alternative, that's a common thing to do with mod_perl.
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        unfortunately, that means migrating some 50 VirtualHosts to the schema.

        it *does* work -- for other VirtualHosts on this machine but this one.

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