On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Dave Morgan <dave.mor...@coolplaces.ca> wrote: > On 26/09/11 11:51 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: >> >> For those Centos 6 users here looking for mod_perl 2.0.5, I rolled a few >> rpms. > > Thank you Fred, I cannot (but I'll try :) explain how useful this is to us.
No problem, I submitted these rpms to the Centos devel list and it looks like they'll be getting pushed upstream for Centos 6, and possibly Centos 5 also. > > We started with mod-perl around 1999, I believe. We used/had to do > do every thing by hand. A typical web server machine build > took 2 to 4 days and involved: > > in rare cases make and install gcc > install the base linux distribution > make and install a custom kernel > make and install required kernel modules > make and install perl 5 > make and install apache, mod-perl, mod-ssl etc. > > I am sure I am missing stuff. There were no central repositories. > You had to visit each source site manually. The software stack was > rarely updated, once you got it working you left it alone ;) > > Now we build a machine in 2-4 hours; > - linux install > - yum install *many things* > - yum update > > Thank you once again. > > Dave > -- > Dave Morgan > Operations Manager, Cool Places In Canada > http://www.coolplaces.ca > dave.mor...@coolplaces.ca > 403 288 8759 >
