If you are building your application using perl, then there is no reason not to consider mod_perl. It is simple to write your applications so that they work both as plain CGI scripts and work correctly under mod_perl. All you need to do is follow the safe coding guidlines that mod_perl suggest when building your application. Most of these suggestions are good coding practise anyway and will result in better code.

A good start is to always use strict, and to use a good framework for building your application. I personally use CGI::Application which goes a great job of organizing your code, and is fully compatible with mod_perl.

Read the docs at http://perl.apache.org/, and checkout the CGI to mod_perl Porting. mod_perl Coding guidelines.

Of course mod_perl offers a huge amount more then just speeding up your CGI scripts, but I would suggest starting simple...

- Cees

In reply to Re: thinking about mod_perl by cees
in thread thinking about mod_perl by geektron

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