RE: must I use mod-perl
that's the point - there is plenty of documentation. When you encounter some problem you gotta search the docs until you find solution. Docs are pretty long so it takes time. Btw from what I read here it seems that it's just me who had problems with installing mod_perl. Oskar -Original Message- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:41 PM To: Oskar Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: must I use mod-perl On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 16:53, Oskar wrote: Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. Oskar, Is there something specific that would have helped you get going faster? Did you find the documentation you needed? - Perrin
Re: must I use mod-perl
Hi there, On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Dennis Stout wrote: I downloaded source for Apache, PHP, and mod_perl and compiled it all and had it working in about the time it took to download it + compile time + about 5 minutes. There is no config to mod_perl really. Either it's there or it isn't. True, it's very quick to install once you get the hang of it. But let's not _over_simplify: you _do_ have to tell Apache what URLs need to be handled by mod_perl or it will just take up RAM and not do anything... :) Once you have an Apache with mod_perl either (I would say preferably) compiled in, or (I would say as a last resort) available as a loadable module, all it takes to get mod_perl to do things for you is a simple configuration directive or two in httpd.conf or your favourite Apache configuration file. Plus your Perl scripts of course. It's all in the documentation. 73, Ged.
Re: must I use mod-perl
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 16:53, Oskar wrote: Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. Oskar, Is there something specific that would have helped you get going faster? Did you find the documentation you needed? - Perrin
Re: must I use mod-perl
From: Oskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. A RedHat 7.3 install with current updates should run mod_perl nicely with only the changes to httpd.conf to load the dso and use it as a handler. However, as to whether you need it or not, performance is the main issue. As a rule of thumb, I'd plan to install it for anything where you expect 10 hits a second or more to a perl script or where the script is slow to start because it is large or needs a database connection. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: must I use mod-perl
Hello there, On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Bulba007 wrote: When must I to use mod_perl? It is necessary? No, it's not necessary. You may want to use mod_perl if you want to use Perl scripting with the Apache Web server. At the expense of some complexity, especially in the installation and configuration of your server, it can provide better performance and more control over the server than is possible with CGI scripting. There is a great deal of documentation available. See the mod_perl home page for more information: http://perl.apache.org Because mod_perl version 2 and the documentation for it are still works in progress, assuming that you are using Linux, at the moment I would advise you to consider only mod_perl 1.27 or 1.28 with Apache 1.3.27 if possible. 73, Ged.
Re: must I use mod-perl
Hi Bulba007, You should use mod_perl when and if your CGI need is more complex than a set of CGI scripts. For example you need better performance, better control of the whole process, such as authorization, authentication, etc.., you need to implement real sound web applications, etc... mod_perl is really like the next step for the perl CGI. If you want to be able to write web applications, then use mod_perl. Otherwise, I think you are pretty much ok with CGI. --- Bulba007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When must I to use mod_perl? It is necessary? B. __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Re: must I use mod-perl
Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. Oskar
Re: must I use mod-perl
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 09:53 pm, Oskar wrote: Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. YMMV of course. My first mod_perl installation took less than a day. If you're familiar with compiling Apache and apache modules it shouldn't take much longer than that. Tuning may take a bit longer and depends on the application. All the code I was interesting in running under mod_perl ran immediately under Apache::Registry or Apache::PerlRun. No script rewriting necessary. This gave an immediate and significant performance boost. The code had no automated tests so it took a couple of days to verify that it was working correctly - but that had nothing to do with mod_perl. The time taken to rewrite scripts to be pure mod_perl handlers depends on the scripts themselves. If you have a good modular code it can be trivial. Adrian
Re: must I use mod-perl
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Oskar wrote: Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. If you're using a system that has some sort of packages, then there are probably mod_perl packages for it. Installing mod_perl on a Debian GNU/Linux systems takes about as long as the download plus 1 minute. -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com ===*/
Re: must I use mod-perl
Install it if you have a lot of time. It took me week to config it and month for rewritting scripts. If you're using a system that has some sort of packages, then there are probably mod_perl packages for it. Installing mod_perl on a Debian GNU/Linux systems takes about as long as the download plus 1 minute. If you know what you're doing, it doesn't take long either. I downloaded source for Apache, PHP, and mod_perl and compiled it all and had it working in about the time it took to download it + compile time + about 5 minutes. There is no config to mod_perl really. Either it's there or it isn't. Dennis
