[Catalyst] confused about file locations when running under apache/mod_perl

[Daniel McBrearty]

hmmm ... I forced debug on via the startup file ... it IS seeing
engoi.yml, but TT isn't finding the templates ...

On 2/25/07, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have my complete apache/mod_perl install built under a single
> directory (/usr/local/apache2) and I normally stop/start apache from
> there using ./bin/apachectl start etc
>
> My app runs fine on the machine using the test server. I have various
> static files under Engoi/root, and templates are in Engoi/templates -
> Engoi/engoi.yaml tells TT where they are.
>
> (I also keep debug off normally, I set an env variable to turn it on,
> so I often start the test server with
>
> export ENGOI_DEBUG=1; ./script/engoi_server.pl -r
>
> ... )
>
> So now I try to run it under apache2/mod_perl (which I know runs fine
> as my old site has used it for more than a year).
>
> The problem I get is that the templates directory is not seen. I have
> tried (as a temp thing while I work out what is happening) to symlink
> them into /usr/local/apache2, that doesn't help. (I also can't seem to
> set the env variable to turn on debug for the server process, which I
> can't currently figure out ... )
>
> So my question is : when I start/stop apache, where will it look for
> the config file? and when it finds it, if there are relative paths to
> other stuff like templates, where does it expect them to be relative
> to? I expected that answer to be "where you issue the command to start
> the server from", but that seems not to be the case.
>
> In the end I *might* migrate to fastcgi, so what would the answer be
> to this in that case? I guess, wherever you start the fastcgi server
> process from?
>
> cheers
>
> Daniel
>
>
> --
> Daniel McBrearty
> email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
> www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
> BTW : 0873928131
>


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Daniel McBrearty
email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com
www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer
BTW : 0873928131