On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jeff McLean wrote: > Hi, > > I have been programming in Perl for about 3 weeks now, and I just > started doing some Perl CGI. I have Apache 2 installed on my linux > system, but and my perl scripts work fine, but I don't knwo whether or > not I'm using Perl (as in /usr/bin/perl) or mod_perl. I thought up > untill recently that Apache has it's own version of Perl that it uses > for CGI scripts (mod_perl) but I am now having doubts. Could someone > please tell me exactly what the difference is between Perl and > mod_perl, and how exactly mod_perl is used (.i.e. is it just for > writing apache modules or is it just for CGI, or what....) I'm > big-time confuesd here. > > Thanks very much!!!!!!!!!!! > > Jeff. >
Hi Jeff - First go to the http://perl.apache.org/ site to get the full story. In short, think of mod_perl as a module that you start up with Apache that allows all of the perl scripts to run faster because the server doesn't have to launch a subprocess because mod_perl is in a sense Apache's version of perl. There are a lot of options/etc (this *is* perl we're talking about), so keep that in mind as you read through the documentation for what is applicable to your website. If you're using mod_perl, you can check your log when you start up Apache for something like this: [Fri May 24 14:50:24 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_perl -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doug Silver Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
