A mod_perl Bug?
I think I’ve found a bug in the <Perl>
sections of mod_perl. More information
can be found here. The upshot is that the Location
directive, when used in
<Perl>
sections, seems to be used internally as a LocationMatch
directive
instead.
I ran into this because I was simplifying Bricolage’s Apache configuration. I
moved the whole complex Apache configuration into a Bricolage module, so that
it’s much simpler to configure Apache to run Bricolage — and much easier to
use virtual hosts. (This is all in Bricolage’s CVS, BTW — it’s not yet
released). I got around the problem by specifying all of my Location
directives with a caret (^
) prepended to them so that they behave like a regex
version of Location
(i.e., LocationMatch
), but I’m kinda annoyed to have to
do that. Am I right in thinking that the LocationMatch
directives add a bit
more overhead to every request?
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