[html-formfu] FormFu + Catalyst + load_config_file on Apache2

[Mario Minati]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 16:18:26 Carl Franks wrote:
> On 11/10/2007, Mario Minati <mario.minati at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I've got a problem bringing my app to production.
> >
> > I've a Catalyst app makeing havy use of FormFu with load_config_file and
> > trying to bring it to production on apache2.
> >
> > The forms are automatically loaded via :FormConfig, which works fine.
> > Now inside the form.yml files I load other .yml form configs.
> >
> > And here the problem arises. On my dev machine I'm working with relative
> > pathes (useing the catalyst builtin webserver) under the Catalyst root
> > directory which works fine.
> >
> > But on apache the current working directoy is '/' !!!
> > So my relative pathes doesn't work.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to tell apache to look in a different path???
>
> Did you get anywhere with this?

Better don't ask ;-)

I hacked ObjectUtil::load_config_file:

### original:
    for (@filenames) {
        croak "file not found: '$_'" if !-f $_;
    }

### hack:
    my @temp_filenames;
    my $base_dir = "/var/www/glue/";
    for (@filenames) {
#use Cwd;
#warn "looking for ".$_." in ". getcwd();
        if (!-f $_) {
#warn "looking for ".$base_dir.$_." in ". getcwd();
            if (!-f $base_dir.$_) {
                croak "file not found: '$_'";
            }
            else {
                push @temp_filenames, $base_dir.$_;
            }
        }
        else {
            push @temp_filenames, $_;
        }
    }
    @filenames = @temp_filenames;
### end

The idea behind this was to introduce this as configurable path.

> Alternatively, you could expand the config-callback that
> Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu sets, so that it supports expanding
> __path_to()__ in config files, as well as __uri_for()__.

This is probably more elegant.

I think I'll switch to this solution. What about non Catalyst users?

Greets,
Mario