hello world, I have been eavesdropping on this list for a while and have enjoyed the general discussion.
I have been working on a perl based application for about a year now, and am longing to migrate to mod_perl. I build a few simple commercial sites with mod perl previously and loved it. My current project is slightly more complex as there are multiple levels of application and management. It is vanilla cgi at the moment, for ease of dev and it isn't easy to find skilled perl craftsman here in S.A. I have written some tools for migrating the module tree to mod_perl, but have some questions nagging before I go ahead. Here goes, There is a central database of client information which is queried for application specific data: databse name, ht root, cgi-bin (each application instance runs its own cgi-bin so that the application can be customised to the clients needs) etc. Not all the cgi will migrate to mod_perl for customisation & maintenance needs but the code engine should/must. question one There is a need to add new client profiles to the centralised database, which create new application filesystems, new database structures and CGI trees. Thus a new profile can be created and activated with the push of a few buttons, but, as it stands, the cgi structure looks like this https://www.foo.co.za/cgi-bin/client1/index.pl https://www.foo.co.za/cgi-bin/client2/index.pl it would be better if it was https://www.foo.co.za/client1 https://www.foo.co.za/client2 just using normal aliasing, but now the problem, -- how to add new aliases to httpd.conf or ./conf/clients.pl without having to restart apache ?? - i have found no linear solution, but there may be a craftier solution, even if some reworking needs to be done second question: Now that we have multiple application and databse instances running concurrently, how do we ensure that filehandle and Apache::DBI symbols are reliably encapsulated in their own namespsaces, all running off the same codebase ? I just feel i need a bit of affirmation that this is 100% before i start this arduous journey Thanks Alastair Stuart Systems Developer Quirk R & D 3rd Floor Armoury Building Buchanan Square 160 Sir Lowry Road Cape Town 7925 eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] land: +27 21 462 7353 fax: +27 21 462 7354 http://www.quirk.co.za
