Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

We tend to now use Ubuntu LTS set ups for our webservers - currently a 
mix of 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 depening on which part of the production 
cycle we are on (yes we have at least 60 for approx 120 different 
websites)...


On 03/10/2016 18:09, 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.
>
> 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
>
>
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