Re: Tutorials Need To Learn More
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Purcell, Scott wrote: > Hello, > I am working with mod_perl and apache on NT (No ripping please ... it is a > political issue here at my work.). > Anyway, I have been trying to learn more about taking advantage of handlers, > etc. I purchased the book "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C", but it > is NOT NT friendly. Most of the examples DO NOT work on my NT mod_perl. > > Anyway, I figure there has to be more resources than just that book. Does > anyone know of any? I am looking for examples and techniques to get me > rolling. http://take23.org/articles/ -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** mod_perl news and resources: http://take23.org ** \\// //\\ // \\
Re: Tutorials Need To Learn More
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Purcell, Scott wrote: > Hello, > I am working with mod_perl and apache on NT (No ripping please ... it is a > political issue here at my work.). > Anyway, I have been trying to learn more about taking advantage of handlers, > etc. I purchased the book "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C", but it > is NOT NT friendly. Most of the examples DO NOT work on my NT mod_perl. I'm not sure what you mean by non-NT friendly ... Doug and others have put a lot of work into porting mod_perl into the Win32 world, with much of the handling of special Win32 quirks done behind the scenes, and so are transparent to the user (as the Win32 Apache porters have also accomplished). Bill talks about some of the fundamental differences with Win32 Apache in the other reply, and there are some special considerations one has to take into account with Win32 Perl in general (see the README.win32 file in the Perl sources), but apart from these, the examples in the book aren't Unix-centric. Perhaps if you posted an example that didn't work for you, together with the basic configuration and the error message it produces, some people on the list may be able to spot the trouble. > > Anyway, I figure there has to be more resources than just that book. Does > anyone know of any? I am looking for examples and techniques to get me > rolling. > http://perl.apache.org/, especially the guide, and http://take32.org/, have lots of info that applies in general. http://www.activestate.com/ has some basic information on Win32 on Perl. But really, the book is still a very valuable resource, as you'll find once you get going ... best regards, randy kobes
Re: Tutorials Need To Learn More
From: "Purcell, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 7:54 AM > Hello, > I am working with mod_perl and apache on NT (No ripping please ... it is a > political issue here at my work.). > Anyway, I have been trying to learn more about taking advantage of handlers, > etc. I purchased the book "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C", but it > is NOT NT friendly. Most of the examples DO NOT work on my NT mod_perl. How do you mean? Of course stat() and other calls work a bit differently, but most C/Perl programmers are already familiar with these distintions. MS does a modest job in documenting clib discrepancies between unix clib and msvcrt. And the Perl/MSWin32 pages do a pretty decent job pointing out the big perl gotchas between Unix and Windows. OTOH, if you are asking about the operational differences for Apache itself, the biggest is that the data you pre-create in the server init phase (some mod_perl hacker can insert the modperl construct here) is not propagated in the same manner. The parent process runs it's init phase (twice), and then the child process runs it's init phase (once). Only the child processes' init phase results are available to the actual requests. > Anyway, I figure there has to be more resources than just that book. Does > anyone know of any? I am looking for examples and techniques to get me > rolling. They should be helping you already, it's just that you need to know a bit about NT clib/perl discrepancies before you can parse any examples out there, in book form or from examples available on the web. Bill
