[PLUG] Tuning httpd.conf [RESOLVED]

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Loren M. Lang wrote:

> You don't need mod_perl to run .pl perl scripts. mod_cgi works just as
> well for most purposes and mod_perl only complicates matters. In fact, the
> original way to run any Perl scripts was mod_cgi which just executes the
> Perl script like a normal program (a la CGI). mod_perl is not the same
> concept that mod_php is for PHP. mod_cgi is a stock Apache module and
> should come with Apache 2.4 even if mod_perl has not caught up yet. The
> key is to set up the appropriate AddHandler/SetHandler directive to make
> *.pl files a cgi program for mod_cgi. mod_perl is more for very
> specialized uses of Perl where Perl needs a deep connection with Apache or
> very high performance.

   For whatever the reason, I could not access the application without
mod_perl being installed. The version provided by ponce works with httpd-2.4.6
and now the application does work.

   Nothing in the application changed during the distribution upgrades, only
httpd and perl versions.

Rich