mod_perl (Re: Possible problem with VMS perldoc)

On May 4, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Eric Robertson wrote:

> Another question just occured to me. Now that I have built and installed the new version of PERL, will I need to rebuild mod_perl for OpenVMS in order to get OpenVMS APACHE to use the new version of PERL?

Yes and no.  You can write CGI (or other web communication methods) in plain old Perl, but what mod_perl gives you is persistence so you save the (sometimes considerable) start-up cost.  mod_perl is just an Apache plug-in that is also an embedded version of the Perl interpreter.  It replaces the perl.exe image but not the perlshr.exe image in a Perl installation so it is specific to a particular build of Perl.

I haven't heard of any ports of mod_perl for VMS except the one Dan Sugalski did for HP ages ago and which they still distribute as part of their 5.8.6 kit.  If someone gets a more recent version working with a more recent version of Perl, please post here what you needed to do to get it working.

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