Re: Apache and Perl

[brainbuz <brainbuz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I strongly recommend Starman or another native Plack (PSGI) process server over fcgi or mod_perl.

See the 2011 Catalyst Advent Calender for my article on this. If you look at different Perl Sites you will find a number of good reasons you should use Plack. The short list:

• Plack process servers are written expressly for the purpose of serving Perl applications.
• Starman serves a web application as HTML, which can then easily be proxied.
• You only need 2 modules on Apache to support it: Proxy and proxy_httpd. Optionally rewrite. 
• Your apache configuration can be as tiny as a single proxypass directive or rewrite rule. If your application can be made proxy aware (as catalyst ones can), proxypassreverse isn't even necessary.
• By running your Perl process externally to the web server your webserver will start much faster.
• By running your Perl process externally to the web server a problem with one won't prevent the other from loading.
• By running your Perl process externally to the web server, when you need to restart your process server  other things being served will be unaffected.

 

On 2011-12-27 13:42, Damien Hull wrote:

> Here's what I have...
> 1. Ubuntu 10.04
> 2. LAMP
> 3. A custom installation of Perl over in /usr/local/
> 4. A web app that requires perl
>
> I'm looking into mod_perl or fcgi to get my web application working.
> 1. How do I setup Apache to use the custom installation of Perl?
> 2. Which method is best, fcgi or mod_perl?
>
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