[cgiapp] CGI::Application::Dispatch, mod_perl and PATH_INFO question

[Simon Rees <suppressed>]

Hello

I'm using CGI::Application::Dispatch under mod_perl 2 to display all the pages 
on a site I'm working on and have had problems getting it to play nicely with 
path_info as reported by Apache.

What I would like to happen is:
Request: http://example.com/foo/bar
Calls: run mode bar in module Foo

When I set this up as a mod perl handler it doesn't work as expected as the 
first directory in the path is removed. In the above example I get "/bar" in 
path_info. I realise this is an Apache issue that it may not be possible to 
solve, but for information here is my minimal config:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # missed out some irrelevent stuff
    DocumentRoot /home/sr/cvs/newforms/connectm_tracker/htdocs
    <Location />
        Allow from all
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler CGI::Application::Dispatch
        PerlSetVar CGIAPP_DISPATCH_PREFIX  Newforms::MembersCGIApp::Dispatch
        PerlSetVar CGIAPP_DISPATCH_DEFAULT /public/front
    </Location>
</VirtualHost>

I assume that because the document root dir does exist the first dir in the 
request uri is satisfied and so only subsequent dirs are set in PATH_INFO.

What it seems I actually want to do is obtain the request uri and pass that to 
CA::Dispatch. To solve this in the short term I've subclassed CA::Dispatch 
and overridden the handler() method. The subclass method is exactly the same 
except for:
$ENV{PATH_INFO} = $r->uri();		# was $r->path_info()

My questions are:
Am I missing something for my apache config that would cause PATH_INFO to 
include the complete uri path?
Is my technique for subclassing CA::Dispatch and using uri rather than 
path_info reasonable? Are there better ways I could do this?

thanks for any advice or suggestions! 

Simon
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