Re: alias command in modperl environment

Feng He wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>         ServerAdmin [email protected]
>         ServerName example.com
> 
>         PerlModule Apache::DBI
>         PerlPostConfigRequire /path/to/startup.pl
> 
>         <Location />
>             SetHandler modperl
>             PerlResponseHandler Handler1
>         </Location>
> 
>         <Location /ip/>
>             SetHandler modperl
>             PerlResponseHandler Handler2
>         </Location>
> 
>         Alias /zzz/ "/var/www/zzz/"
>         <Directory /var/www/zzz/>
>                 Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>                 AllowOverride None
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 allow from all
>         </Directory>
> 
>         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
>         LogLevel warn
>         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/cdn.access.log combined
> 
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> 
> I put some static files under /var/www/zzz/.
> When accessing these static files, I got 403 error.
> Can't alias command work for this case?
> 

I believe that you have the following problem :

What you specify in the "<Location />", by default, is inherited by all "sub-Locations" of 
"/", so for example the location "/zzz/" inherits the "SetHandler modperl" from the 
location "/".
I don't remember the exact syntax, but try to add the following :

<Location "/zzz/">
   SetHandler default       (or maybe it is "none")
   .. (other directives)
</Location>

Generally, I try to avoid setting a special handler or other special rules for the 
Location "/", for precisely that kind of reason : you find that you then need to override 
these defaults in every sub-directory of your setup.