Re: mod_perl in larger scale environments

So it sounds like Apache is simply not going to meet my needs. In the 
event that I do need to replace Apache, hopefully you can save me some 
research time and recommend me one of the listed options that fulfills 
my needs (or confirm that perlbal does)

I need the following features:
1) provides support for named virtual hosts
2) supports SSL to the client
3) supports URL rewriting (similar to mod_rewrite)
4) knows the availability of pool members and provides high availability.
5) the ability to serve static content itself

I guess 5 isn't strictly neccessary, but it would be nice to serve 
static content (css/js/images/etc...) from the same piece of technology 
without proxying those requests to another Apache instance running on 
the same host (or something)

Thanks for all the help!

On 4/14/2010 5:48 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Brad Van Sickle<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> I didn't find much info on perlbal after a quick glance, I'll certainly give
>> it a closer look, but my inital reaction is that I'm leary of replacing
>> Apache on my web layer. I'm doing a few things with a few other modules (
>> mod_rewrite for example) in addition to mod_proxy, and from what I was able
>> to find in my initial look, I didn't see any support for some of those types
>> of things.
>>      
> There are many full-featured proxy servers these days.  There's even
> mod_proxy_balancer for apache, but that doesn't do high-availability,
> which you're looking for.
>
> Check out some of these for reverse-proxying if you don't like perlbal:
> - nginx
> - lighttpd
> - varnish
> - pound
>
> All of those can serve as mod_perl frontends.
>
> - Perrin
>