Re: How do you use mod_perl for your web application?

We use Mason 1.x inside a custom web framework (which I've recently gotten permission to release open-source), under mod_perl/Apache 2. Working on a transition to Plack and Mason 2, but we've already integrated the superior stack traces and debug console from Plack middleware.

On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Fred Moyer wrote:

> I'm interested in hearing about what application frameworks (Catalyst,
> CGI::App, Mojolicious) are used here with mod_perl.  Given the number
> of emerging Perl based webservers on CPAN (in addition to Nginx,
> lighty, etc), it seems like there are many more Perl web application
> and webservers out there now than there were five years ago.
> 
> I'll start.  I have a couple of Apache::Dispatch based applications I
> wrote.  I also work on an Apache::ASP large codebase, and a couple of
> different Catalyst based systems.  All are running on mod_perl 2.0.4
> in production (the ops haven't upgraded to 2.0.5 yet).
> 
> If I were to migrate, I would probably try out something like
> Mojolicious on Plack on mod_perl2.  Performance of mod_perl2 has never
> been an issue to date, but I have Perlbal doing connection handling as
> a reverse proxy.