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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Doug MacEachern <do...@opengroup.org> on 1997/07/31 15:03:30 UTC

Re: Apache + mod_perl on Solaris

rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) wrote:

> I recently convinced an extremely high profile site to move from Netscape
> Enterprise + Perl CGI's to Apache + mod_perl.  I cannot name the site yet,
> but I will announce it here when I can.  Any serious caveats I need to
> address when I help these guys make the conversion?  Platform is Ultra-2's
> with 512 Megs of RAM in each box with a NetApp file server providing about
> 250 Gigs of NFS storage.  OS is Solaris 2.5.1.  With Perl 5.004 the
> conversion of the CGI scripts appears to be trivial so as long as I have
> the server itself well optimized for the load, I am expecting a very clean
> switchover.

Sounds like you've got plenty of ammo.  It might be worthwhile to run
your configuration by the modperl list.  There's a handful of Solaris
users running mod_perl on busy sites who might have some hints to share.

-Doug

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> -Rasmus
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