"~" and HTML::Mason and Apache on Snow Leopard

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

I'm setting up a new iMac with Snow Leopard and its default software: Apache 2.2.11, Perl 5.10.0, and mod_perl 2.0.4.

I have installed HTML::Mason and updated the Apache httpd.conf file with the same additions as my previous Mac, where Mason worked perfectly:

PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
PerlSetVar MasonDataDir /usr/local/mason
PerlAddVar MasonCompRoot "main => /Library/WebServer/Documents"
PerlAddVar MasonCompRoot "mrb => /Users/mrb/Sites"

<Directory /Users/mrb/Sites/mason/sfmail_new>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</Directory>

AddType text/html .mhtml
<LocationMatch "\.mhtml$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
</LocationMatch>
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And of course I restarted Apache so that it would read the updated httpd.conf file.

Now I find that trying to view http://localhost/~mrb/somefile.mhtml, which should match the 'LocationMatch' directive above, doesn't invoke Mason to handle its content. However, the same file, same filename and extension, accessed at http://localhost/somefile.mhtml, is handled by Mason as it should be.

Has anyone else run across a problem like this?

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Re: "~" and HTML::Mason and Apache on Snow Leopard
by Joost (Canon) on Sep 30, 2009 at 21:40 UTC

Now I find that trying to view http://localhost/~mrb/somefile.mhtml, which should match the 'LocationMatch' directive above, doesn't invoke Mason to handle its content.

If it's the first, check you've got the correct mod_userdir directives configured. If it's the second, or something else, I don't really know what the problem would be. Anything useful in the apache error logs when you access the file or when you start apache?

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