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Jeremy at Malcolm

May 1, 2008, 2:36 AM

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Session handling doesn't work for me

I am trying to get my head around session handling. I have a small
test document like this:

<html>
<head>Embperl session test</head>
<body>
[$ if $fdat{action} eq "submitted" $]
<p>You just submitted [+ $fdat{test} +]. Now setting a cookie with that
value. Please <a href="test.html?action=continue">continue</a>.</p>
[- $udat{test} = $fdat{test} -]
[$ elsif $fdat{action} eq "continue" $]
<p>The value you input on the previous page is [+ $udat{test} +].</p>
[$ else $]
<p>Enter anything here.</p>
<form>
<input type="text" name="test" />
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="submitted" />
<input type="submit">
</form>
[$ endif $]
</body>
</html>

My Apache 2 configuration looks something like this:

<VirtualHost press.terminus.net.au:80>
ServerName press.terminus.net.au
DocumentRoot /var/www/press
<Directory /var/www/press>
<FilesMatch ".*\.htm.?$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Embperl::Object
Options ExecCGI
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch ".*\.epl$">
Order allow,deny
Deny From all
</FilesMatch>
EMBPERL_APPNAME terminuspress
EMBPERL_OBJECT_BASE base.epl
EMBPERL_URIMATCH "\.htm.?|\.epl$"
EMBPERL_SESSION_CLASSES "File Semaphore"
EMBPERL_SESSION_ARGS "Directory=/var/www/press/orders"
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Nothing ever gets written to /var/www/press/orders. I read in the
Embperl::Config man page that if I put EMBPERL_DEBUG 209715 in my
environment then I will get debugging of session transactions, but I
don't get anything that I recognise as helpful written to that log.

Am I doing something wrong?

TIA

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Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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Jeremy at Malcolm

May 2, 2008, 1:12 AM

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Re: Session handling doesn't work for me [In reply to]

On 01/05/2008, at 5:36 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> Nothing ever gets written to /var/www/press/orders. I read in the
> Embperl::Config man page that if I put EMBPERL_DEBUG 209715 in my
> environment then I will get debugging of session transactions, but I
> don't get anything that I recognise as helpful written to that log.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Don't worry. I have now worked around it by installing
Apache::SessionX. Presumably there was something wrong with my
EMBPERL_SESSION_ARGS environment variables that should have enabled
Embperl to work with Apache::Session without Apache:SessionX, although
I copied those variables straight out of the man page, but *shrug* it
works now anyway.

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Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor
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