mod_perl2 and location /

Hi all,

Just install mod_perl2 and it work nice :) But i'm not happy with
configuration... - probably becouse before i used mod_php...

Config is:

DocumentRoot /var/www/site/
<Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
Options ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
[...]
</Location>

like in EVERYWHERE on net... Scripts are in /var/www/site/perl/.

Not so clean config like in php...("perl" part in location tag...).
Everything work except getting root (eg. http://www.site.my/)... 404...
So i added:

RewriteRule ^/$ /perl/index.pl

and it start to work... But i do not like this.... How to remove this
rule ?

I added:

RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ /perl/$1

too. I read mod_rewrite is fast but it is ugly for me...
Probably i can remove perl dir and hold scripts in docRoot but still
^/$ rule will be required...

So how to make / url work ? DirectoryIndex ? Or write my own class ?

Changing .pl sufix to .html would be nice too... And for "inline" perl
scripts (like php <? ?>) i need Embperl ? Is it fast ?

And one question more: is ModPerl::Registry Debian-specific addon ?
Everywhere is Apache::Registry or Apache2::Registry...

Anyone can help ?

Regards,

Sylwester Lunski