* Tom Gioconda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010524 20:06]:
> My company, to my objections, recently decided to force all of our new
> servers to running only Win2k. I won't go into the details, but let's just
> say that in our standard hosting facilities, nothing runing Linux is allowed
> anymore. This kinds of screws my department, as we have just finished
> development on a Linux/Apache solution tied heavily into mod_perl for a
> support web site.
>
> This leaves me with few options:
> 1) Run Apache/win32 and mod_perl.
> 2) Run IIS 5 and use an ISAPI handler to hook into my perl code.
>
> Could anyone help me out here? The first option is bad because of
> mod_perl's reduced functionality on win32 in version 1.25 (no threads, to my
> understanding). Option 2 is evil because I'd have to figure out some way to
> get an ISAPI extension to call perl code in a multithreaded way, and I'd
> have to use IIS.
>
> Am I stuck waiting for Apache 2 and mod_perl 2 to get to a point where
> they'll work in a production environment, or am I simply screwed and have to
> work around my company's dumb decree? Any help would be appreciated,
> although no comments on my company's IT policies, please... :)
ActiveState sells a (IMO) cheap solution for just this sort of thing:
PerlEx. (http://www.activestate.com/perlex/)
Chris
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Chris Winters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.
