[Scoop-help] Executing PHP files under scoop's jurisdiction

[Maxime Romano]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install some PHP application on my server under Scoop's
tree, such that scoop resides at http://www.example.com/ and the PHP
scripts at http://www.example.com/php/.

So, the solution I've found so far is to stick all the PHP scripts under
$scoopdir/html/php/, then add the following to my httpd.conf:

  <Location /php>
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
  </Location>

This works, but has the (serious) drawback of making the PHP interpreter
parse every file.  Now, this isn't particularly tragic, but then every
file under http://www.example.com/php/ gets sent with a "text/html"
content-type, which is terrible, because then images don't get sent
right, and nor do CSS files get accepted. So, in trying to give CSS
files the proper content-type, I've attempted many different
combinations of AddHandler, RemoveHandler and AddType for the last few
hours.  There are generally only two outcomes: either I put SetHandler
application/x-httpd-php in and everything gets interpreted as PHP, or I
don't and nothing gets interpreted (which is obviously incorrect).

Now, the scoop install itself is running on a Virtual Server on an
apache site which hosts many other PHP-based sites without any problem
or special httpd.conf settings whatsoever.  So it's not PHP's fault.
Furthermore, scoop has been in use for the longest time, and I'm
convinced that the mod_perl is properly installed and configured, as
well. So it's not scoop's fault either.

The culprit seems to be me :)

So, either I'm doing it completely wrong, or maybe it's impossible, or
maybe my strategy is just bad. Anyway, if anyone knows anything about
this and could shed some light on my predicament, I would be immensely
grateful.

- Max

This is the relevant portion of my httpd.conf :

<VirtualHost 10.10.10.10>
  ServerAlias www.example.com
  ServerName www.example.com
  DocumentRoot /home/example/scoop/html

  User example
  Group example

  <perl>
    use lib qw( /home/example/scoop/lib );
  </perl>

  PerlModule ModPerl::Test
  <Location />
     SetHandler perl-script
        PerlSetVar DBType mySQL
        PerlSetVar mysql_version 4.0
        PerlSetVar db_name example
        PerlSetVar db_host localhost
        PerlSetVar db_user example
        PerlSetVar db_pass hackme
    <perl>
      my $vfile = '/home/example/scoop/VERSION';
      my $v = do $vfile;
      push(@{ $Location{'/'}->{PerlSetVar} },
         [ scoop_version  => $v->{Version}  ],
         [ scoop_date     => $v->{Date}     ],
                 [ scoop_revision => $v->{Revision} ],
         [ scoop_author   => $v->{Author}   ],
             [ scoop_state    => $v->{State}    ]
          );
    </perl>
        PerlSetVar cookie_host .example.com
        PerlSetVar SMTP localhost
        PerlSetVar site_id example
        PerlSetVar site_key hackmehackmehackme
        PerlSetVar dbdown_page /pages/dbdown.html
        PerlRequire /home/example/scoop/etc/startup.pl
     PerlHandler Scoop::ApacheHandler
  #   PerlSendHeader On
  </Location>

<Location /images>
    SetHandler default-handler
  </Location>

  <Location /pages>
    SetHandler default-handler
  </Location>k

  <Location /php>
        SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
  </Location>

  <Location ~ "^/(robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)$">
    SetHandler default-handler
  </Location>
  Alias /files/ /home/example/scoop/files/
  Alias /adminfiles/ /home/example/scoop/adminfiles/
  ErrorDocument  404 /pages/404.html
  ErrorDocument 500 /pages/500.html
#Alias /wiki /home/example/scoop/wiki/index.php
#Alias /index.php /home/example/scoop/wiki/index.php

</VirtualHost>

Apache version is 1.3.37 on Fedora Core 2