Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread Stas Bekman
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Rod Butcher wrote: I am looking to migrate a small modperl-based webhosting and ISP service from NT to some flavour of Linux. Are any particularly modperl-friendly or unfriendly or are they all much the same ? I'm fairly comfortable with Redhat, but I hear stories of

Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread T.J. Mather
Also, another piece of advice for what it's worth. If your going to add SSL, build and test apache with mod-perl first, and then go back and add SSL. There may well be a work-around that I'm not aware of, but basically the problem is that mod-ssl is looking for an encryption key on

Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread Stas Bekman
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Rob Tanner wrote: RedHat is as good or bad as any of the distributions. Redhat is not my personal preference -- and note, I said preference. I don't back my opinion with lots of objective data because that's a subjective valuation. I've been using Caldera, but I've

Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread Stas Bekman
--On 08/26/00 18:51:31 +0200 Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, obviously you have to supply the password on the server startup, unless you use one of the workarounds described in the ssl docs (secured utility that feeds the passwd is the best IMHO). Naw, something else is

Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Well, the legal troubles should be outlined in the mod_ssl docs. I think it just has to do with using the rsa_ref libraries because of a patent held in the USA. But I haven't looked at it lately. In theory you're supposed to get a license to use it. When you buy StrongHold or another

Re: Advice on migrating modperl from NT to Linux ?

2000-08-26 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 11:31 AM 8/26/00 -0700, Rob Tanner wrote: --On 08/26/00 18:51:31 +0200 Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, obviously you have to supply the password on the server startup, unless you use one of the workarounds described in the ssl docs (secured utility that feeds the passwd is the