in reply to mod_perl and DirectoryIndex

You don't say how you are running your mod_perl, as handlers, or as ModPerl::Registry etc.

I would hazard a guess that you are using Registry, or one of the other mod_perl enabled CGI-like environments. You have set Registry to handle a particular directory, and while /path/page works, when you make a request to /path/, you're not not getting the directory index that you expect.

When Registry is set as the response handler for a location or directory, mod_dir never receives control.

See this thread for more details about the problem, and see this post in particular for the solution.

Clint

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Re^2: mod_perl and DirectoryIndex
by NederBoy (Initiate) on Aug 08, 2007 at 16:03 UTC
    First, I want to thank clinton for the relevant thread link. Fixup.pm 
    package My::Fixup;
use strict;
use warnings FATAL => qw(all);

use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(DIR_MAGIC_TYPE OK DECLINED);
use Apache2::RequestRec;
use Apache2::RequestUtil;

sub handler {
  my $r = shift;

  if ($r->handler eq 'perl-script' && -d $r->filename 
      && $r->is_initial_req)
  {
    $r->handler(Apache2::Const::DIR_MAGIC_TYPE);
    return Apache2::Const::OK;
  }
  return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
}
1;

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    Add PerlFixupHandler line to httpd.conf 
    PerlInputFilterHandler Apache2::ModProxyPerlHtml
PerlOutputFilterHandler Apache2::ModProxyPerlHtml
SetHandler perl-script
PerlFixupHandler My::Fixup
PerlAddVar ProxyHTMLURLMap "http://host.doamin.tld /host"
PerlAddVar ProxyHTMLURLMap "http://host1.domain.tld /host1"
PerlSetVar ProxyHTMLVerbose "On"

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    What I am using closely mimics what is in the perldocs of http://www.samse.fr/GPL/ModProxyPerlHtml/Apache2-ModProxyPerlHtml-2.1/ModProxyPerlHtml.pm with the exception that now I am also serving static web pages off of this server as well.


    This seems to have worked.

    Thanks again Perl Monks.
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