[Catalyst] Template rendering error under mod_perl

[Richard Jones]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:20:23PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>   
>> I didn't actually 'install' it as such, just copied the MyApp directory 
>> under my /home folder, added the path/to/MyApp/lib to mod_perl's lib in 
>> startup.pl file so it can find MyApp.pm, and re-started the server. It 
>> looks like Catalyst _can_ find the 'home' directory, as it displays 
>> correctly in the rather verbose 'Config' section of the screen dump:
>>    home => '/home/raj/www/apps/MyApp',
>> and directly under that is root/lib and root/src. I REALLY need to fix 
>> this one or I'm sunk!
>>     
>
> What debugging did you do?  Did you dump the INCLUDE_PATH?
>   
In MyApp::View::TT:
MyApp::Debug::DEBUG( __PACKAGE__->config->{INCLUDE_PATH} ):

$VAR1 = [
          bless( {
                   'file_spec_class' => undef,
                   'volume' => '',
                   'dirs' => [
                               '',
                               'home',
                               'raj',
                               'www',
                               'apps',
                               'MyApp',
                               'root',
                               'lib'
                             ]
                 }, 'Path::Class::Dir' ),
          bless( {
                   'file_spec_class' => undef,
                   'volume' => '',
                   'dirs' => [
                               '',
                               'home',
                               'raj',
                               'www',
                               'apps',
                               'MyApp',
                               'root',
                               'templates'
                             ]
                 }, 'Path::Class::Dir' )
        ];

This is correct - I moved the templates dir underneath MyApp/root.
> Template::Provider also has some dubbing available.  Did you enable
> that?  Have you tried making a local copy of Template::Provider in
> your lib directory and throw in some warn statements?
>
>   
No, I wasn't aware of it's existence! Even after reading the docs it's 
not clear (to me) how to use the $provider object within Catalyst to get 
the template path, or why this is any better than using the INCLUDE_PATH 
from MyApp::View::TT

This is getting weirder - if I try to load a page normally available 
only after login, I get another path error in addition to the template 
error:
Form (search): Can't find form config search.fb in: 
/home/raj/www/apps/MyApp/root/forms, yet search.fb is most definitely 
present in /home/raj/www/apps/MyApp/root/forms. All root sub-dir files 
set to 0644 permissions, with user/group set to same as other web files. 
What gives?

-- 
Richard Jones