Re: Recommended Linux distribution for LAMP/mod_perl

We went through a bit of an tricky patch when Ubuntu prematurely switched
from Apache 2.2 to 2.4 (with major changes needed for mod_perl to work),
like 6-12months before it was ready.

But otherwise, I have not had any major issues with ubuntu and
apache/mod_perl.



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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dr James Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]>
> 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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