Re: PerlTransHandler headaches

Glenn E. Bailey III wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While I am not new to Perl, I am completely new to mod_perl. 

check out the resources at http://perl.apache.org/ - there's lots of good 
information there :)

> sub handler {
>       my $r = shift;
>       return OK;
>   }
> 1;
>
> And not matter what I always get a 404 with the following in the log:
>
> [Tue Jul 29 03:27:27 2003] [error] [client 10.0.0.1] File does not 
> exist: /

the translation phase is there to map the URI to a filename.  by returning 
OK, you're telling Apache that you've done the translation (that is, you 
have set $r->filename to something useful).  since you didn't set 
$r->filename, apache is returning 404, since it can't serve the value of 
$r->filename.

so, the general rule for PerlTransHandlers is to return DECLINED unless you 
set $r->filename.

chapter 12 in the mod_perl Developer's Cookbook deals specifically with the 
PerlTransHandler and is as good a place to start learning as any.

HTH

--Geoff