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Apache Today: Getting Started with mod_perl in 30 Minutes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 23, 2000

[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard
for this link. ]

“In the previous article, I passed along quite amazing Web
performance reports from companies that have deployed mod_perl
heavily. You might be surprised by this, but you can quite easily
get similarly amazing results if you move your service to mod_perl
as well. In fact, getting started with mod_perl shouldn’t take you
more than 30 minutes, the time it takes to compile and configure
the server on a decent machine and get it running.”

“In this article I’ll show step-by-step installation and
configuration scenarios, and chances are you will be able to run
the basic statically compiled mod_perl setup without reading any
other documents.
Of course, you will want and need to read the
documentation later, but I think you will agree with me that it’s
ultimately cool to be able to get your feet wet without knowing
much about the new technology up-front.”

“The mod_perl installation was tested on many mainstream Unix
platforms, so unless you have some very non-standard system you
shouldn’t have any problems when building the basic mod_perl
server.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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