What version of mp are you using: mp1: ---- http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/modules.html#Apache__PerlVINC___Allows_Module_Versioning_in_Location_blocks_and_Virtual_Hosts
mp2: ---- Any mp2 you can give every v-host it's own perl interpreter with a different lib-path: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html#C_PerlOptions_ Tom Daniel McBrearty wrote: > Hi, > > If I am developing an app that has a bunch of perl modules as part of > the repository (the modules are dedicated for this project), how do I > get Apache/mod_perl to use the correct version? > > Say my repository exports like this: > > projectDir > | > | > ----MyLib (contains "X.pm", "Y.pm" ...) > | > | > ---- site ---- cgi --- app.cgi > > Say I export different versions of this into directories R1.00, R1.01, > in a dir outside the build tree. Now I symlink the site directories to > /var/www/test and /var/www/prod. (This is all done with scripts > followed by a server restart.) > > Til now I've been using > > use lib "../.."; > use MyLib::X; > > in app.cgi. I thought it was working fine, but I'm not so sure now ... > especially after reading : > > (snip) > Even though @INC typically includes dot ("."), the current directory, > this really isn't as useful as you'd think. For one thing, the dot > entry comes at the end, not the start, so that modules installed in the > current directory don't suddenly override system versions. You could > say use lib "." if that's what you really want. More annoyingly, it's > the current directory of the Perl process, not the directory that the > script was installed into, which makes it completely unreliable. If you > create a program plus some modules for that program to use, it will > work while you're developing, but it won't work when you aren't running > in the directory the files live in. > (/snip) > > I don't know what the working dir of one of teh mod_perl processes > would be? The dir of teh first script that is executed? The dir where > the server was started? Anyways, I doubt that this is teh correct way. > > All help much appreciated. And big thanks for the great free software > ... mod_perl is brilliant! > > Daniel > > > > > -- > Daniel McBrearty > danielmcbrearty at gmail.com > >
