mod_perl2 sessions?

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Hi, I am new to mod_perl, and I want to manage sessions on my site, however I cannot create it, please help.

I am trying to use Apache::Session::File module, and my code looks like the following:


use Apache2::Request;
use Apache::Session::File;
use warnings;

#read cookie if this is an running session

 my $r = Apache2::RequestUtil->request;
 my $cookie = $r->headers_in('Cookie');

#Create a session object based on the cookie 

my %session;
tie %session, 'Apache::Session::File', $cookie, {
    Directory => '/tmp/plsessions',
    LockDirectory   => '/tmp/plsessionlock',
 };

# if a new session, give it cookie back

my $session_cookie = "SESSION_ID=$session{_session_id};";
 $r->headers_out("Set-Cookie" => $session_cookie);
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when trying to run that script from browser I get following in error_log:

[Tue Nov 05 00:01:34 2013] [error] argument is not a blessed reference
+ (expecting an APR::Table derived object) at scripts/login.pl line 8.
+\n
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If anybody has a sample example on howto use sessions with mod_perl2, i would appreciate if you share. PS. I was trying to install perl-Apache-SessionManager, however it fails:

~# rpm -Uvh perl-Apache-SessionManager-1.03-1.2.el6.rf.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        perl(mod_perl) is needed by perl-Apache-SessionManager-1.03-1.
+2.el6.rf.noarch

# rpm -q mod_perl
mod_perl-2.0.4-10.el6.x86_64
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That's strange because in description perl-Apache-SessionManager supports mod_perl2

Any help kindly appreciated

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Re: mod_perl2 sessions? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2013 at 01:29 UTC
Well, I doubt $cookie is a sessionid, the kind you're expecting	[reply]
Re^2: mod_perl2 sessions? by httpd (Novice) on Nov 05, 2013 at 05:31 UTC
do you have any example of creating session with mod_perl2? I cannot find it :(	[reply]
Re^3: mod_perl2 sessions? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2013 at 08:15 UTC
A roundabout way seems Re: Session Cookie Glitch with mod_perl 2.03 and Apache 2.2.6 I would even try one of the recipees from mod_perl: Cooking Recipes, basically trying to get/set a cookie the hard way requires reading some Apache2:: docs I would stick with a framework that abstracts away these low level details, Dancer/Catalyst/Mojolicious/CGI::Application...	[reply]

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