Doug Silver wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jeff McLean wrote: >> >>I have been programming in Perl for about 3 weeks now, and I just >>started doing some Perl CGI. I have Apache 2 installed on my linux >>system, but and my perl scripts work fine, but I don't knwo whether or >>not I'm using Perl (as in /usr/bin/perl) or mod_perl. I thought up >>untill recently that Apache has it's own version of Perl that it uses >>for CGI scripts (mod_perl) but I am now having doubts. Could someone >>please tell me exactly what the difference is between Perl and >>mod_perl, and how exactly mod_perl is used (.i.e. is it just for >>writing apache modules or is it just for CGI, or what....) I'm >>big-time confuesd here. > > First go to the http://perl.apache.org/ site to get the full story. In > short, think of mod_perl as a module that you start up with Apache that > allows all of the perl scripts to run faster because the server doesn't > have to launch a subprocess because mod_perl is in a sense Apache's > version of perl. There are a lot of options/etc (this *is* perl we're > talking about), so keep that in mind as you read through the documentation > for what is applicable to your website.
Actually the new site (which should be released realy soon now) has a nice and easy intro to mod_perl (thanks to Bill Moseley and others who helped): http://perl.apache.org/release/start/index.html So Jeff, you may want to start from this URL first. __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
