Apache2::PerlSections $PerlConfig

perl 5.12.3, httpd-2.2.16, mod_perl 2.0.5, RHEL5

This is part of a project to move a large a large-ish mod_perl application from mod_perl1 to 2. It's about time!

Most of the httpd.conf is read by setting $PerlConfig equal to the output of a HTML::Template in a <Perl> section.

Using a Cleanup handler and Apache2::Directive, I can see that only some PerlPassEnv, PerlOptions => '+GlobalRequest' and the <Perl> section which reads the template are defined, i.e. no locations or directives from the output of the template.

If I cut and paste the output of the template into httpd.conf, things work fine.

I've tried a few things.

my $r = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
$r->add_config($template->output);

Which gets me

Syntax error on line 66 of /home/web/rosalind-dev9/etc/httpd/httpd.conf:
\t(in cleanup) Global $r object is not available. Set:\n\tPerlOptions +GlobalRequest\nin httpd.conf at /home/web/rosalind-dev9/etc/httpd/httpd.conf line 116.\n

This seems odd to me, because +GlobalRequest is set before the <Perl> section, and is clearly set when I check Apache2::Directive in Cleanup.

And, per this six year old bug report, http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/modperl/modperl/88339, I tried a begin block that redefines Apache2::PerlSections's dump_special in conjunction with lines like

@PerlConfig = split /\n/, $template->output;

Printing the contents of $template->output to the error log inside the <Perl> section produces what I expect.

If I simply cut and paste the template output into the httpd.conf, it works fine.

Any suggestions how I can fix this?





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