You're going to be better off with Debian than you will be with CentOS because Debian actually ships with precompiled mod_perl packages.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM, daniel.axtell <daniel.axt...@snet.net> wrote: > I've been trying to migrate a site with a lot of Perl legacy code running > under Apache 2.2 and mod_perl. The server I was migrating to uses CentOS > 7, and the default Apache 2.4 and perl 5.16 seem unusually difficult to > configure. I'm not even able to get CGI scripts to run. In the past I've > built Perl, Apache and mod_perl from source, but that seems like a lot of > unnecessary work. Ideally I'd like to use the stock Apache and Perl from > the distribution, and just install CPAN modules, data and config files and > go. I'm curious if people here find a particular Linux distribution Perl > and mod_perl friendly, as the RedHat and CentOS distributions seem pretty > hostile. CentOS 7 has a third-party module of mod_perl 2.0.8 but if I > can't get CGI working correctly I don't really trust it. > > Should I just assume building everything in the LAMP stack from source is > the way to go? > > Dan > -- John Dunlap *CTO | Lariat * *Direct:* *j...@lariat.co <j...@lariat.co>* *Customer Service:* 877.268.6667 supp...@lariat.co
