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Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl?

ManagedLinks
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Sep 30, 2005, 1:35 AM

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Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl?	Can't Post

Ok here's the problem. after installing mod_perl I placed the script I wanted to run into the perl directory called it and all worked swimmingly.

The script is called by lots of clients on different web servers So I cannot easilly change the location of the script to /perl/

an easy fix or so I thought was to rewrite the url using mod rewrite so that the server would look for the script in the correct directory (/perl/) rather than the requested directory (/cgi-bin/)

I inserted this into httpd.conf in the virtual server configuration

Code

#redirect mlserver requests to the faster mod_perl 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/mlserver.pl(.*) /perl/mlserver.pl$1

Bonza it worked

but then I realised it was still running under CGI not mod_perl !

Now I cannot find a way to get the script running under mod_perl. CGI always takes over!
if I remove the shebang line the script fails
if I call it directly ie: server.com/perl/mlserver.pl it works correctly under mod_perl

How can I redirect an incoming request to the new mod_perl script?

I know this question is probably more an apache one, but I hope someone here can assist

I have tried renaming the script to mlserver.perl and the setting a new handler
ie: AddHandler perl-script .perl
but all that does is send back plain text, it doesn't execute mod_perl at all

Any ideas apart from telling all my clients to change the code on hundreds of sites?

rork
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Sep 30, 2005, 1:51 AM

Post #2 of 4 (7256 views)

Re: [ManagedLinks] Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Maybe not the best solution, but can't you redirect to the new script from the old script?
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ManagedLinks
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Sep 30, 2005, 5:09 PM

Post #3 of 4 (7247 views)

Re: [rork] Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl? [In reply to]	Can't Post

unfortunately this script is called thousands of times an hour, which is why its going to mod_perl

using a standard redirection doubles the network activity and increases the time the client is waiting for a response. because of the nature of the script it is set to time out after 5 seconds

so redirections are not an option. but thanks for the input

obviously apache processes handlers before rewrites and not after.

I cant find a way for the process to be "rehandled"

Ta for the input

ManagedLinks
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Sep 30, 2005, 5:11 PM

Post #4 of 4 (7246 views)

Re: [ManagedLinks] Seems simple enough how do I redirect old cgi scripts to mod perl? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Found the Answer WooHoo

instead of the rewrite I can just tell Apache to handle the script itself as a mod_perl script using

Code

<Location /cgi-bin/mlserver.pl> 
SetHandler perl-script 
PerlHandler Apache::Registry 
Options ExecCGI 
allow from all 
PerlSendHeader On 
</Location>

that solves the problem and avoids a rewrite in the bargain

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