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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Damien Hull <dh...@section9.us> on 2011/12/27 19:42:24 UTC
[users@httpd] Apache and Perl
Here's what I have...
1. Ubuntu 10.04
2. LAMP
3. A custom installation of Perl over in /usr/local/
4. A web app that requires perl
I'm looking into mod_perl or fcgi to get my web application working.
1. How do I setup Apache to use the custom installation of Perl?
2. Which method is best, fcgi or mod_perl?
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Re: [users@httpd] Apache and Perl
Posted by Damien Hull <dh...@section9.us>.
Thanks for the info...
I'm slowly figuring things out. I installed Starman on my test server.
Moving on to the Perl application and then the apache 2 config.
On Dec 27, 2011, at 10:40 AM, brainbuz <br...@brainbuz.org> wrote:
I strongly recommend Starman or another native Plack (PSGI) process server
over fcgi or mod_perl.
See the 2011 Catalyst Advent Calender for my article on this. If you look
at different Perl Sites you will find a number of good reasons you should
use Plack. The short list:
- Plack process servers are written expressly for the purpose of serving
Perl applications.
- Starman serves a web application as HTML, which can then easily be
proxied.
- You only need 2 modules on Apache to support it: Proxy and
proxy_httpd. Optionally rewrite.
- Your apache configuration can be as tiny as a single proxypass
directive or rewrite rule. If your application can be made proxy aware (as
catalyst ones can), proxypassreverse isn't even necessary.
- By running your Perl process externally to the web server your
webserver will start much faster.
- By running your Perl process externally to the web server a problem
with one won't prevent the other from loading.
- By running your Perl process externally to the web server, when you
need to restart your process server other things being served will be
unaffected.
On 2011-12-27 13:42, Damien Hull wrote:
Here's what I have...
1. Ubuntu 10.04
2. LAMP
3. A custom installation of Perl over in /usr/local/
4. A web app that requires perl
I'm looking into mod_perl or fcgi to get my web application working.
1. How do I setup Apache to use the custom installation of Perl?
2. Which method is best, fcgi or mod_perl?
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Re: [users@httpd] Apache and Perl
Posted by brainbuz <br...@brainbuz.org>.
I strongly recommend Starman or another native Plack (PSGI) process
server over fcgi or mod_perl.
See the 2011 Catalyst Advent Calender
for my article on this. If you look at different Perl Sites you will
find a number of good reasons you should use Plack. The short list:
* Plack process servers are written expressly for the purpose of
serving Perl applications.
* Starman serves a web application as HTML,
which can then easily be proxied.
* You only need 2 modules on Apache
to support it: Proxy and proxy_httpd. Optionally rewrite.
* Your
apache configuration can be as tiny as a single proxypass directive or
rewrite rule. If your application can be made proxy aware (as catalyst
ones can), proxypassreverse isn't even necessary.
* By running your
Perl process externally to the web server your webserver will start much
faster.
* By running your Perl process externally to the web server a
problem with one won't prevent the other from loading.
* By running
your Perl process externally to the web server, when you need to restart
your process server other things being served will be unaffected.
On
2011-12-27 13:42, Damien Hull wrote:
> Here's what I have...
> 1.
Ubuntu 10.04
> 2. LAMP
> 3. A custom installation of Perl over in
/usr/local/
> 4. A web app that requires perl
>
> I'm looking into
mod_perl or fcgi to get my web application working.
> 1. How do I setup
Apache to use the custom installation of Perl?
> 2. Which method is
best, fcgi or mod_perl?
>
>
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