Rod Butcher wrote: > My .05... I run a small communal webserver. Software had to be free, secure, > stable, support Perl, multiple domains and ASP, be reasonably simple, > originally run on Win32 and be capable of migration to Linux later. > Nobrainer -- Apache, mod_perl, Apache::ASP. > Only difficulty was getting mod_perl installed, it helped that I had a > background in IT, I suspect a non-professional would find it impossible. > Which is a shame because Win$ users expect everything to work out of the box > wihout having to know anything. That's not meant as a criticism, but I think > it's the reality now.
I was thinking that too, but then I remembered that if you're not from an IT background, you're probably not going to be able to write a line of mod_perl code anyhoo. But, yeah, the installation/compilation process is daunting for a javascript/html jockey who is trying to pick which server side language (PHP, Perl, Python, JSP, etc.) to learn.