I had replied earlier to James Eshelman's note, and my copy to the Boston PM list bounced. I am trying again from a different email agent.
>Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:23:51 -0400 >To: "James Eshelman" <[email protected]> >From: William Whalen >Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Apache/mod_perl 2 => 1? >Cc: > >At 10:14 AM 6/18/2011 -0400, James Eshelman wrote: >>A while back I worked with a big perl app running under mod_perl and apache2, >>but actually running in version 1 mode. The problem is that the details of >>how this was accomplished are a bit sketchy in my mind. Apache2::compat was >>definitely part of it and is well documented on the mod perl site, but I have >>this nagging feeling that there was more to it than that and what I find on >>the mod_perl site. Anyone have any pointers on doing this? > >It sounds like you are migrating an existing mod_perl 1 application >to mod_perl 2. > >For mostly good reasons, the interface and conventions changed >greatly from version one to two of mod_perl, and the migration takes a bit >of revising. Apache2::compat may make the earlier application >function, at a potentially high run-time cost, and it is meant to >be a temporary transition piece. > >You have found the on-line docs, which are not always >easy to read but will repay attention. > >The mod_perl users list is a very good forum: > >http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > >This book is especially helpful (although the online >material overlaps greatly and sometimes is more current): > >http://modperl2book.org/ > >One can do a great deal with mod_perl, but it is >rather its own entity. > >William >([email protected]) _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
