Hi Colin, just my opinion, but from a 'practicalities' point of view, as startup.pl gets more complex (your site grows larger, you wish to do more intricate mod_perly things), you will find that it is a distinct advantage to run it from the command line in the debugger. you wouldn't be able to do this if you buried all your perl in the apache configs...
I'm sure there's many more reasons to keep your startup script outside of the http configs, usually it's because it's only neat and tidy to begin with embedding your perl into your configs, but as your site configs get larger, you'll probably start thinking it a better idea to put all your <perl> sections in their own seperate httpd conf file, which might as well be a startup.perl script...... Marty --- colin_e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Platforms: Solaris 9, Win XP > Apache: 2.0.52 > Perl: ActiveState Perl 5.8.4 > > Hi Guys, > New to Apache 2.0.52 and modperl, working > through the install and > configure steps. > > Most books and docs on using modperl recommend using > a "startup.pl" script > to configure the Perl environment on startup, > setting lib paths etc. > However, Apache now > supports <Perl>...</Perl> sections directly in the > Apache config files. > > In a normal perl script, a chunk of code brought in > with "require" is > exactly the same as a > block inline within the the main routine. > > Queastion- is this the same in Apache? I.e, instead > of using a > startup.pl file can I include all the perl > configuration inline in httpd.conf inside > <Perl></Perl> blocks, with the > same effect? Logically > it would seem so, but the apache docs also say > variables in the <Perl> > blocks go away after use, > so it's unclear whether oeprations like "use lib > ...." would have an effect. > > Regards: Colin > > -- > Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: > http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > List etiquette: > http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html > > ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
