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

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Perrin Harkins <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Are you comparing that to mod_perl with a proxy server in front of it?
>  That is the equivalent architecture.  If you remove the proxy,
> mod_perl becomes faster but the scalability suffers.  I wouldn't
> recommend anyone run mod_perl without a frontend proxy of some kind.
>
>
This is exactly what I saw.


Better FastCGI support for Apache would be great.
>


I have some FastCGI programs, let me see if I could pack them and upload to
CPAN.



>
> You actually can access efficient file serving through the mod_perl
> API, but I agree, auth in the app framework is often a bad solution.
> My favorite solution so far has been to use things like mod_auth_tkt
> which let you write a complex auth system in your favorite language
> and then check credentials from an efficient C module that can guard a
> static file directory.
>
> - Perrin
>


Totally agree. Moving system-wide operations to C modules as far as
possible.