On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Loren M. Lang wrote: > You don't need mod_perl to run .pl perl scripts. mod_cgi works just as > well for most purposes and mod_perl only complicates matters. In fact, the > original way to run any Perl scripts was mod_cgi which just executes the > Perl script like a normal program (a la CGI). mod_perl is not the same > concept that mod_php is for PHP. mod_cgi is a stock Apache module and > should come with Apache 2.4 even if mod_perl has not caught up yet. The > key is to set up the appropriate AddHandler/SetHandler directive to make > *.pl files a cgi program for mod_cgi. mod_perl is more for very > specialized uses of Perl where Perl needs a deep connection with Apache or > very high performance.
For whatever the reason, I could not access the application without mod_perl being installed. The version provided by ponce works with httpd-2.4.6 and now the application does work. Nothing in the application changed during the distribution upgrades, only httpd and perl versions. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
