[Templates] Enabling caching of templates under mod_perl?

[Perrin Harkins]

On 7/19/07, Andrew Light <andrewlight7@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The one thing I have to figure out now, is how to manage the global varia=
lbe
> thing. To be honest, I have never heard about the Apache::Registry hack, =
I
> just pop in all of my regular CGI files in a mod_perl environment and don=
=B4t
> really have any special codes for mod_perl execution.

But you did configure your httpd.conf to run the files under
ModPerl::Registry or ModPerl::PerlRun, right?  If not, you haven't
been using mod_perl.

> Are there any resources on this, that I should study?

There's a ton of documentation on http://perl.apache.org/.

> I tried the thing with the lexically scoped "our" varialbe snippet
> equivalent to your suggestion, but it seems like the template object is
> still created on each hit

That does sound like you aren't using mod_perl.  Can you print out
$ENV{'MOD_PERL'} and check?

- Perrin