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Greetings all,

I've inherited a webserver running approx 40 - 50 (mostly small) perl web applications, all using cgi.pm and served via Apache. We're in the process of upgrading our webservers and I thought this was a good time to look at moving away from cgi.pm.

I need to keep all the legacy stuff running under Apache, but I want to start writing new projects using a framework and plack. My question is what do people think is the best way to go about this?

My options:

1. Keep all the legacy applications running on one server and set up a new one for psgi apps - In an ideal world this would porbably be the best option but it may not go down well with sys admins:).

2. If I have to do it all on a single server is it possible to run everything through apache and proxy any psgi requests through to something like starman.

Lastly, how would I deploy multiple psgi apps (in a similar way to my current cgi scripts)? I've been looking at Plack::App::URLMap but is this the recommended way to do it, will it scale well if I end up with a lot of apps (max < 50).

In reply to Serving multiple Plack apps by soundX

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