mod-perl (mason) breaks DirectoryIndex apache2

3duke has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

On a new install of Debian GNU/Linux version 7 (wheezy), after installing apache and mod-perl I am able to use mason, but the SetHandler/PerlHandler directives appear to make the DirectoryIndex directive stop working. Below are the steps needed to recreate with a fresh Wheezy install.

aptitude install apache2 libhtml-mason-perl libmason-perl
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at this point traveling to the server via http should give you the 'It Works Page', and you'll be able to test that DirectoryIndex is working and sending the user to index.html. Add these lines to the default sites-enabled virtual host configuration:

PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    
    <Location /var/www/>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
    </Location>
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restart apache and now it will parse <% $mason %> on your index, but you will have to travel explicitly to the index (i.e. http://192.168.1.2/index.html) because it will no longer direct you to it automatically.

Thanks in advance for any help with this issue, and my apologies if its far simpler than I thought, or I have somehow not met the standards for a post (I read the rules, but you never can be sure). I have the mason book and have read online documentation, but was unable to find documentation related to apache configuration with mason.

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Re: mod-perl (mason) breaks DirectoryIndex apache2 by Anonymous Monk on Sep 21, 2013 at 16:50 UTC
Add these lines to the default sites-enabled virtual host configuration: Funny that :) Not everyone has one of those to look at :) Anywho, of interest might be these https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#DirectoryIndex https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dir.html#DirectorySlash https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#multiviewsmatch http://www.masonhq.com/htmlmason/wiki/HandlingDirectoriesWithDhandlers Apache::Dir	[reply]
Re^2: mod-perl (mason) breaks DirectoryIndex apache2 by 3duke (Initiate) on Sep 25, 2013 at 13:16 UTC
dhandlers were the important factor here, once I read through the dhandler section of the mason book again and on the fourth link there, I was able to get back on track. Thank you.	[reply]
Re^3: mod-perl (mason) breaks DirectoryIndex apache2 by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2013 at 00:32 UTC
...Thank you. :) So what was the issue and the solution? The subdir didn't exist so dhandler wasn't called, so you added a location for subdir in your apache config, so dhandler would get called?	[reply]


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