On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Soulhuntre wrote:
> Hiya :)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ime Smits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 6:57 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: mod_perl weaknesses? help me build a case....
> >
> >
> > Just because a lot of errors are openly discussed on the web (it is a
> > community built project) it it doesn't mean there are far more bugs in
> > Apache::ASP or mod_perl or Apache than in any other closed source product,
> > say IIS.
>
> Agreed :) You know how it is when your trying to convince the guys upstairs
> to try something new :)
>
> > I never had any problems with CPAN modules. I must say the only
> > ones I make heavy use of are the DBI and mySQL modules, which never
> crashed
> > whatsoever. I think that as long as you don't get into very experimental
> stuff, you
> > won't have any problems.
>
> Ok, good. Like I said, most of the concerns come from the newsgroups and
> mailing list posts... we will be using DBI/mySQL and some of the XML stuff
> and a template module mostly.
>
> > That's because Perl makes people lazy. If you code by the rules,
> > there is no problem. But it ain't a problem create memory leaking code.
>
> That I know :) And yeah, cgi makes us lazy :) But reading through the
> caveats for mod_perl it is pretty easy to see that some of these things are
> subtle and require a hefty knowledge of perl internal stuff unless your just
> gonna "copy-n-pray" :)
>
> > Linux/Apache::ASP I haven't experienced a segfault ever. In the beginning
> > there were some initial memory leaks, but that was my own coding proplem,
> > not a problem of perl or mod_perl or Apache.
>
> Good to know :) Thanks!
>
> > | 4) There does not seem to be a compatible win32/linux modperl/embedding
> > | toolkit. I can use modperl/apache/::ASP under linux, but the same setup
> > does
> > | not seem stable under win32 - and the activestate ASP perlex stuff does
> > not
> > | seem completely compatible.
> >
> > Can you give me more detail on the incompatibilities?
>
> Well, let me turn that around, has anyone succeeded in getting mod_perl
> running well on Apache on win2k?
I have had good experiences with mod_perl/apache so far. I do all of my
development in various UNIX environments (BSDs and Linux) and also use this
platform for my production servers. One situation I ran into about a month
ago was the need to build a demoable version of our website that my two
CEOs could take on the road with them. Since neither have any UNIX experience,
or maybe I should say, neither have much computer experience, I decided to
port the site onto a windows box (laptop). With the exception of Apache::Request
(which was easy to hack up a replacement--more or less) I had no problems
moving the site over - it took about a day, half of which I spent just
figuring out how to do it and getting the required software. My configuration
is Apache with mod_perl and a MySQL database. I should mention though that
the windows site is not a production site so I did not really pay much
attention to how well (efficiently) it is running. All the functionality
is there which is what I was really after.
I don't use the ASP stuff so I don't know too much about that.
Hope this helps
andrew
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