Ok, thanks for the infos.
Do I need to type use mod_perl; in scripts?
And is scipting in strict enough as of "good" scripting is involved?
Etienne
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Etienne Marcotte wrote:
>
> > I read often about that mod_perl that makes perl run a lot faster and
> > etc. I tought until now that it was "by default" mod_perl when it's
> > with the apache distribution, but Brett stated: "and CGI::Carp has
> > some problems when run under mod_perl"
>
> No, mod_perl is not necessarily a part of Apache. I think some RPM/Debian
> packages are available for mod_perl, but it is an add-on to Apache. It
> basically embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server space, so
> scripts that have been compiled stay compiled, and provides for persistent
> database connections, session management, etc. It does provide much
> better performance (at the price of resource usage) than native CGI.
>
> > Does that mean a script has to be build for mod_perl and/or mod_perl
> > needs to be "called" in each script? Or mod_perl is not something I
> > should worry about and if it's with my Apache it means it's using
> > it...:-)
>
> mod_perl does require you to use clean programming practices -- it won't
> let you get away with sloppy code, improper use of global variables, etc.,
> and it does provide an API to Apache itself, which rocks, but is not
> something for beginers.
>
> See http://perl/apache.org for more information, if you are interested.
>
> -- Brett
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