I did more tests with the Action directive and I am now convinced that it is a bug in the eperl package, not in apache2.
- Bug#1112461: apache2: environment variables are not available ... Marek Chlup
- Bug#1112461: eperl bug Marek Chlup
I did more tests with the Action directive and I am now convinced that it is a bug in the eperl package, not in apache2.