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mod_perl digest
November 19, 2000 - November 25, 2000
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o FAQ of the week
o links
mod_perl status
o mod_perl
- stable: 1.24_01 (released October 10, 2000) [1]
- development: 1.24_02-dev [2]
o Apache
- stable: 1.3.14 (released October 13, 2000) [3]
- development: 1.3.15-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6 (released March 23, 2000) [5]
- development: 5.7 [6]
module announcements
o HTTP::GHTTP 1.0 - a lightweight HTTP client library based on the
gnome libghttp library [7]
mailing list highlights
It was another relatively slow week...
o Some discussion on the future of libapreq - such as possible ToDo
items, various bugs that need attention, and the possibility of a
new maintainer - has been started [8]
o SDBM_File, BerkeleyDB, and DB_File are compared in an interesting
thread discussing a new caching module MLDBM::Sync [9] [10] [11]
o A patch was submitted to DBI::ProxyServer and Net::Daemon which
together allow for a tricky DBI connection pooling scheme based
on DBI::connect_cached() [12]
o A minor bug was found in Apache::test [13]
FAQ of the week
o After restarting Apache I can't see the changes I made to my
handlers or other perl modules - how do I get mod_perl to see
the changes?
Sending Apache the HUP signal, via apachectl restart or kill -HUP,
only reads changes to your httpd.conf file - it does not refresh
content of the perl modules themselves. This makes module
development a bit more tedious so, of course, there are some easy
solutions available. Apache::StatINC is included in the base
mod_perl distribution, but is not recommended for production use
due to its rather large overhead. Apache::Reload, available on
CPAN, is a modified version of Apache::StatINC that allows for
greater control over reload behavior. The PerlFreshRestart
directive is also available, but frequently reported to be less
than fully stable.
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [14]
o mod_perl documentation [15]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [16]
o mod_perl homepage [17]
o mod_perl list archives [18] [19]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
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[1] http://perl.apache.org/dist/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/
[3] http://www.apache.org/dist/
[4] http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-1.3/
[5] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#stable
[6] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#devel
[7] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/horgunkhon
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/clendcharal
[9] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/rixfrasmoi
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/syspexclar
[11] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/stultwelddwimp
[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/clojixbang
[13] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/maysolsnimp
[14] http://perl.apache.org
[15] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[16] http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Apache/
[17] http://www.modperl.com
[18] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[19] http://archive.covalent.net/modperl/
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