Mod Perl is awesome. That said, the cool kids today are all about Plack. Google: Dancer, Mojolicious, Catalyst. These allow you to plugin to all parts of the HTTP protocol, but obviously not to modify apache configuration. Excelent, stable, FAST, production ready HTTP server: Starman Even faster, but not as proven: Twiggy.
The most common setup would be with an Nginx process in front. I had a hard time accepting this was a good configuration because for 20 years I had thought of webservers as big giant compiled systems (apache), but apparently you can now create something just as fast in Perl. On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:59 PM Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question is move off to what ? I don't see alternatives being shared > which blows an apache+mod_perl setup out of the water. > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:56 PM Ruben Safir <ru...@mrbrklyn.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 09:48:48PM +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: >> > >> > >> > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 21:41, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > I am genuinely curious what are these other "well known" means ? >> > > >> > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Mark Blackman <m...@blackmans.org >> <mailto:m...@blackmans.org>> wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > > On 4 Aug 2020, at 17:58, Mithun Bhattacharya <mit...@gmail.com >> <mailto:mit...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > mod_perl does have value because it does a more efficient >> utilization of resources - this is important when fast response time and >> scalability is important. The complexity is a known problem but it is not a >> mystery box either - there is enough documentation which explains what has >> to happen and what could have gone wrong. >> > > >> > > mod_perl’s relative efficiency can be achieved by other well-known >> means. >> > >> > That would depend on what you mean by "efficient utilisation of >> resources”. You can get the same general effect, more simply, by running a >> high-performing pre-forking Perl web application server and a web server >> with a simple configuration in front of it ,instead of a complicated >> Apache+mod_perl installation. >> > >> > That also buys you a nice separation of concerns, the web server >> handles all the complicated host or path rewrites and access control and >> the Perl app focuses on responding to the, now-sanitised, fully normalized, >> HTTP requests. >> > >> >> Not really and the separtion is not a concern, it is an asset, the most >> important one. >> >> To get faster, you would need to move off apache. >> >> >> > - Mark >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town >> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological >> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 >> http://www.mrbrklyn.com >> >> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 >> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software >> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive >> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! >> http://www.brooklyn-living.com >> >> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, >> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 >> >>
