Octavian Râsnita wrote:
If you use ActivePerl under Windows, mod_perl can be installed from
the TheoryX ppm repository and it doesn't require too much configuration.
Using fastcgi under Windows is harder, and I don't even know if it can
run as an ExternalServer.
For Apache possibly. The mod_perl "clone" for IIS (ActiveState's PerlEx)
is virtually unsupported and has (had?) low-level bugs; because it is
closed source there is almost nothing you do can about them.
We were therefore effectively forced into using FastCGI, which has
certainly proven portable, scalable, and with acceptable performance
even under IIS. (IIS, need I say it, was not our choice). IIS FastCGI
support is now pretty good because of the Zend/Microsoft collaboration,
although PHP is the principal beneficiary.
Don't get me wrong - I was a big fan of Apache and mod_perl on Windows,
I was compiling it for mission-critical applications in 2001 -
applications which were still in use and running stable on the same
server 8 years later!!!
All the best
Stuart
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Stuart Watt
ARM Product Developer
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