Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

2016-10-03 Thread daniel.axtell
I've been trying to migrate a site with a lot of Perl legacy code running under Apache 2.2 and mod_perl. The server I was migrating to uses CentOS 7, and the default Apache 2.4 and perl 5.16 seem unusually difficult to configure. I'm not even able to get CGI scripts to run. In the past I've

If building from source

2016-10-03 Thread daniel.axtell
Thanks for all the suggestions about Linux distributions. If I do go the build from source route, is there a preferred Perl version to use in conjunction with mod_perl 2.0.9 and Apache 2.4? Is 5.20 the sweet spot? Dan

Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

2016-10-04 Thread daniel.axtell
On Mon, 10/3/16, Vincent Veyron wrote: Now all I need to do to get up and running is : apt install apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-request-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-apreq2 apache2.2-common and from then on : apt upgrade