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From: Geoffrey Young <gyoung@laserlink.net>
To: 'Christian Gilmore' <cgilmore@corp.tivoli.com>
Cc: "'brabec@ncsu.edu'" <brabec@ncsu.edu>, modperl@apache.org
Subject: RE: [RFC] Apache::BlockSymLinks 0.1
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:41:57 -0500 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Gilmore [mailto:cgilmore@corp.tivoli.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: Geoffrey Young
> Cc: 'brabec@ncsu.edu'; modperl@apache.org
> Subject: RE: [RFC] Apache::BlockSymLinks 0.1
> 
> 
> 
> Geoff, et al:
> 
> I've toyed with ModuleConfig, and it is really cool, but I 
> was under the
> impression that people stayed away from using it since it appears to
> require a recompile of mod_perl for every module that inserts a new
> directive into the list. That's why I assumed the use of 
> PerlSetVar was
> much more popular than ModuleConfig.

I think PerlSetVar is more popular because it's easier to implement and
doesn't require much effort.  ModuleConfig.pm is a bit more complex, but it
is still just straight perl and doesn't require XS to implement.  It depends
on your needs, though - I wouldn't use it when you only need a few config
directives but I might prefer it to a file-based config like BlockSymLinks
uses.

as far as the recompiling of mod_perl goes, that doesn't make sense to me.
Apache::Dispatch uses ModuleConfig for all it's parameters and you should be
good to go with just the typical make stuff.

--Geoff


> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > you may want to look into Apache::ModuleConfig to see how 
> you can create
> > directives without the need for a separate config file.
> > 
> > for instance:
> > SymLinkRule Deny .*
> > 
> > it's pretty easy and probably a bit cleaner in this case 
> (since I suspect
> > that you moved to a config file since PerlSetVar just 
> didn't fit the bill
> > for the syntax you wanted). just see chapter 8 of the Eagle book
>