Re: Advice on Apache

[Wayne <inf...@pi...>]

Thanks for all the replys. After doing further reading
I came to the conculsion that I didn't need mod_perl.
I have Apache now installed. now for DBI.
Wayne

"Roderick A. Anderson" wrote:

> 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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