localhost url repeating on internal links

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

I am having further problems with my migration to localhost. When I click on an internal link I get this as the link:
http://localhost/choo/cgi-bin/ua/localhost/choo/cgi-bin/ua/main.pl (The link is repeating itself somehow.)

The code this is coming from is this:

<A HREF="<!--GLOBAL::script_dir_url-->/main.pl">Main Page</a> | <A HRE
+F="<!--GLOBAL::script_dir_url-->/browse.pl">Browse</a> |<!-- <A HREF=
+"<!--GLOBAL::script_dir_url-->/newitem.pl">Sell</a> |--> <!--<A HREF=
+"<!--GLOBAL::script_dir_url-->/gallery.pl">Gallery</a> |-->
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I thought possibly it had something to do with scriptalias in apache (2.4) or addhandler (.pl) But I disabled those and it continues to double up on the link. I am not familiar with the global script so I'm not sure if possibly that is causing this or something else.

This is happening in windows 10 environment using the latest Strawberry edition. Any ideas on a fix?

Thanks for any help.

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Re: localhost url repeating on internal links by haukex (Archbishop) on Jun 30, 2019 at 12:16 UTC
You'd have to locate the place where `GLOBAL::script_dir_url` gets set, perhaps by grepping for `script_dir_url`. Since you've described earlier that this code works on a *NIX server and not Windows, you might want to check if you've got the same module versions installed on both, although without knowing what the code that sets the variable looks like, I can't say which ones. Also, looking at the %ENV variables provided by Apache to the CGIs on each system might give a clue, e.g. with a test script that simply does `use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%ENV;`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: localhost url repeating on internal links by traincity (Sexton) on Jun 30, 2019 at 17:07 UTC
OK thanks very much for your response. I'll check those out.	[reply]
Re^2: localhost url repeating on internal links by traincity (Sexton) on Jul 01, 2019 at 08:53 UTC
Thanks again for your help on this. Somehow I was able to manipulate the variables so that it now works.	[reply]
Re: localhost url repeating on internal links by Anonymous Monk on Jun 30, 2019 at 03:45 UTC
So youre asking why some variables have some certain value at some certain point in some certain code of yours that only you can see?	[reply]
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