Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl
Ruben Safir <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 10/03/2016 01:09 PM, John Dunlap wrote: > You're going to be better off with Debian than you will be with CentOS > because Debian actually ships with precompiled mod_perl packages. > manjaro with openrc > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM, daniel.axtell <[email protected] > <mailto:[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 > > > > > -- > John Dunlap > /CTO | Lariat / > / > / > /*Direct:*/ > /[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>/ > / > *Customer Service:*/ > 877.268.6667 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013