upgrading to apache 2

[Malka Cymbalista <Ma...@weizmann.ac.il>]

I am currently running apache 1.3.26 with mod_perl 1.36 and Perl 5.6.1 on my web server which is a Sun Solaris machine running Solaris 7.  We have just bought a new Sun machine for our web server and I will be installing Solaris 9.  I figure that now is a good time to upgrade my software.  I would like to install Apache 2, mod_perl 2, and Perl 5.8. Does anyone know of any specific problems, issues that I should look out for?  I am also running MySQL and I use the perl DBI-DBD modules for interfacing between apache and mysql.  If anyone has any suggestions or tips to pass along I would appreciate it. 


Malki Cymbalista
Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel 76100
Internet: Malki.Cymbalista@weizmann.ac.il
08-934-3036

Re: upgrading to apache 2

[Ged Haywood <ge...@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hello there,

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Malka Cymbalista wrote:

> I am currently running apache 1.3.26 with mod_perl 1.36 and Perl
> 5.6.1 on my web server which is a Sun Solaris machine ...
> I would like to install Apache 2, mod_perl 2, and Perl 5.8.

While Apache version 2 is stable, mod_perl version 2 is not yet.  If
you are prepared to accept some of the issues which arise during the
early stages of software development then by all means try mod_perl
version 2.  If not, then stay with the latest version 1, which means
you must also use a version 1 Apache.

There have been several issues with Perl 5.8.0, and although I have
had no problems with 5.8.0 on my own development boxes, in either case
I would wait for Perl 5.8.1 before release into a user environment -
and I would test that for a couple of months first.  As far as I can
tell Perl 5.6.1 is as good a release of Perl as any.

73,
Ged.