Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

You're going to be better off with Debian than you will be with CentOS
because Debian actually ships with precompiled mod_perl packages.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM, daniel.axtell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
> built Perl, Apache and mod_perl from source, but that seems like a lot of
> unnecessary work.  Ideally I'd like to use the stock Apache and Perl from
> the distribution, and just install CPAN modules, data and config files and
> go.  I'm curious if people here find a particular Linux distribution Perl
> and mod_perl friendly, as the RedHat and CentOS distributions seem pretty
> hostile.  CentOS 7 has a third-party module of mod_perl 2.0.8 but if I
> can't get CGI working correctly I don't really trust it.
>
> Should I just assume building everything in the LAMP stack from source is
> the way to go?
>
> Dan
>



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