is Apache a real need? if you need to run a microwebsite embed into a portable StrawberryPerl distro many other options are available: Starman Plackup and even other frameworks offers the possibility to run micro webserver:

I bookmarked a oneliner by YourMother that goes like:

plackup -p 5000 -MPlack::App::Directory -e 'Plack::App::Directory->new
+({root => q{.}})->to_app'
[download]

PS see also Simple http server one-liner for some static files? and Webserver Oneliner

I suspect that doing this way will be simpler than with an entire Apache installation.

Spend your time investigating in the security implications: accepts only from localhost for example.

You can modify the portableshell.bat that comes with Strawberry portable installation and launch directly the webserver and finally start http://127.0.0.1:5000 to open the page in the default browser.

CitrusPerl is another option to create a specific Perl distribution.

L*

Discipulus++ is right, for light to medium load, a Perl-based web server should be sufficient.

Another option is to use XAMPP. It has its own set of odds, but you get a working set of Apache, MariaDB (MySQL fork), PHP, Perl, Mercury Mail, FileZilla, Tomcat, OpenSLL, and a custom control panel for all of that.

I don't like the fact that it installs all of the bundled software by default, filling the machine with a lot of software that may be a security risk. I also miss any kind of update mechanism. It's quite common to find Windows machines with ancient XAMPP versions full of vulnerable software versions. Also, I think that MySQL is one of the worst RDBMS, right after MS SQL Server.

Nevertheless, XAMPP is a very quick way to get a working web environment on a Windows PC, similar to what you would get at a shared hosting service (Apache, MySQL, PHP, Mail, FTP, and maybe Perl). And unlike some shared hosting services, XAMPP uses quite recent versions.

Alexander

Hmm,

Weird

currently XAMPP says it distributes "Strawberry Perl 7.0.56 Portable" --- yeah, sure, that is real release

that exists not

Yepp, I've seen that, too. One of the odds of XAMPP. My guess is that some s/5\.\d+\./7.0./g intended to update PHP 5.x to PHP 7.0 in the docs went wrong. Oh well, such things happen, but they should not.

Alexander

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