Re: mod_perl site went live today

[Doug MacEachern <do...@backflipcorp.com>]

Thanks for sharing this Ged, I hope things go smoothly for you!

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, G.W. Haywood wrote:

> Hi Doug,
> 
> Just a note to say that after a month of testing, Apache and 
> mod_perl went live today on the Jubilee Group Web server.
> 
> Jubilee Office Supplies sells about 120,000 stationery and
> other consumables to about 18,000 customers.  About 25,000 of 
> the products are presently available for ordering on-line 
> using a Perl CGI front end to search a flat text file database 
> a bit like termcap.  The main point to the front end is to 
> help the customer FIND the blessed products, which is no mean
> feat when (a) there are so many products and (b) the customers
> have no idea what they want, and (c) if they did they wouldn't
> know what it's called.
> 
> The CGI scripts are pretty much unchanged from the plain ol' 
> Apache version.  I still consider the site under development, 
> so we haven't actually told all our customers about this yet...
> 
> Don't know yet if it's going to prove worth all the effort,
> time will tell!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ged.
>