I am working on getting perl re-installed on some of our HP-UX machines. I've managed to build it in a side directory (/home/me/bin to be precise) so that it doesn't much with any vendor supplied software and I am looking into creating some webservices. The only problem is that they seem to require mod_perl, which I am entirely clueless about at the moment.

This raises a few questions for me:

  • When I install mod_perl, will this affect any current programs that may be out there using /usr/bin/perl use CGI?
  • How can I be assured which copy of perl will be built into mod_perl
  • Could the installation of mod_perl cause anything to become broken or funny with other CGI (non-Perl) interactions?

    • My biggest fear is that some of our vendor-supplied code may be messed with by installing mod_perl into apache. like I said, mod_perl is completely new to me. Thanks for all the assitance.

    If you make something idiot-proof, eventually someone will make a better idiot.
    I am that better idiot.

    In reply to mod_perl questions by peschkaj

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