Re: defaulting to index.pl

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Hi

On Tue 01-Mar-2005 at 04:34:57PM -0000, Gavin Henry wrote:
> 
> I have been reading http://perl.apache.org and
> http://modperlbook.org/
> 
> and I understand the Apache::Registry parts of the docs, i.e.
> enabling say /perl/ for an alias etc.
> 
> But, all I want to do is stick a index.pl in the main root
> directory and go from there.
> 
> I know this is done with the <Files></Files> parameter, but it's
> confusing the  out of me.

You need to tell apache which file to serve as a directory index: 

  DirectoryIndex index.pl

  http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex

And also you need to enable scripts, I'd use a <Directory> directive
something like this if I were you:

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
  <Directory /var/www/html>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Indexes
    DirectoryIndex index.pl
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>

Chris

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