Automatically prepend executable Perl scripts using .htaccess (like php_value auto_prepend_file)?

Question

I have previously built sites using PHP, where I automatically included header and footer html using the following lines in .htaccess on an Apache host:

php_value auto_prepend_file "/var/www/html/parts/header.htm"
php_value auto_append_file  "/var/www/html/parts/footer.htm"

In these files I could put executable PHP code.

My current project is written in Perl, not in PHP.

Is there any way to automatically prepend and append executable Perl files using .htaccess?

Answer 1

It depends on how exactly you're using perl. There are several different frameworks that would do what you want - e.g. HTML::Mason has the autohandler that will load stuff for you. There's also a perl module called Apache Sandwich that might be what you're looking for.