[Catalyst] ConfigLoader trouble

[Joel Bernstein]

On 17 Jun 2009, at 10:52, Ben Vinnerd wrote:
> Have got a problem with ConfigLoader not reading %ENV.
>
> At the top of Myapp.pm i have:
> use parent qw/Catalyst/;
> use Catalyst qw/StackTrace ConfigLoader/;
> ...and i'm setting env var in httpd.conf:
> PerlSetVar MYAPP_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX beta
         ^^^ is this intentional? Should be Env?
>
> ... but ConfigLoader will not load myapp_beta.conf from the  
> application dir.
>
> I have output the contents of %ENV to my Apache log, and  
> MYAPP_CONFIG_LOCAL_SUFFIX is there.
>
> I'm stumped, as i have this working on another machine.
>
> If i manually set ConfigLoader's file option, it loads the config  
> fine:
>
> __PACKAGE__->config->{'Plugin::ConfigLoader'} = {file => '/home/ben/ 
> Myapp/myapp_beta.conf'};
>
> Any ideas?

I've not run Catalyst under mod_perl in quite a while, but I would  
expect PerlSetEnv to definitely DTRT. Are PerlSetVar variables made  
available in %ENV under C::Engine::Apache? I don't believe so. Does  
switching to PerlSetEnv fix your issue?

/joel