Re: Advice on Apache

[Roderick A. A. <raa...@ti...>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Wayne wrote:
> 
>  > Thanks for the input John. I download Apache 1.3.20 and after reading
>  > the INSTALL instruction I'm not sure whether I should install mod_perl
>  > first or if I can do it after installing Apache.

You might look for the apache-heavy package - statically linked in
mod_perl (and other modules if you want). There are RPMs (which is what
I use) but I'm not sure about a tarball or other package managers.

> Forget about mod_perl. For SQL-Ledger you need Apache and perl, not
> apache+perl.
> 
> mod_perl is for embedding perl commands in html - like server side
> includes or php. SQL-Ledger is perl CGI-scripts, not embedded perl.

Actually I think you're thinking of embperl.  Mod_perl loads a perl
interpreter into Apache.  The main benefit being quicker startup of perl
scripts.  Instead of Apache making a system call to the script which
starts perl which reads the rest of the script file to execute; mod_perl
gets reads the script to execute (or it will already be there from a
previous call).  Things happen faster.

   For a lightly loaded server (hardware and software wise) it isn't
really needed but on a system running multiple companies which may have
multiple users connected at the same time the response times would be
much better.

I'm not sure if the SQL-Ledger code supports Apache::DBI but it is my
understanding that this in conjunction with mod_perl will make a
significant response time difference.

The short of it is mod_perl isn't needed for light/normal usage.


Rod
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