On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:23:59AM +0800, Matthew Robinson wrote: > > As far as I'm aware all the normal CGI calling mechanisms work fine, it is > just mod_perl that has a problem. Normal CGIs work because Apache on Win32 > simply execs a perl process for each CGI script which is pretty much the > same as on UNIX.
On NT4, spawning a new process incurs a greater overhead than on Unix. This makes things like mod_perl (or ISAPI if you're using IIS) a good idea. I'm assuming Windows 2000 is much the same in this respect, but that's just a guess. It's probably worth looking into running either a lightweight Apache with mod_proxy or Squid (with Cygwin) as a front-end server (although I've never run either of these on Windows), handing off requests to your mod_perl enabled server. This is discussed in the Guide, which has already been recommended. I'd definitely avoid running a virtual Linux machine under Windows as a serious solution - it's too early in the morning to consider things like that... Tom
