The mod_perl site

What is mod_perl?

Have a look at the user docs for 1.0 to start expecially the 'Coding guidelines' and 'Frequent mod_perl problems' sections.

The mod_perl documentation is amongst the best open source documentation on the web. It is well worth a read.

In a nutshell if you program like this it will generally work: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Module qw( do_stuff );
my $var = ....
do_stuff($var);
exit 0;

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The easiest way to mod perl is use strict and put all your functions into modules and have very simple scripts. In essence mod perl wraps your script into a subroutine that gets called over and over. That means that global vars do not get reset between calls to the script {now effectively a sub in the long running mod_perl 'script'} so you can have persistent DBH on the one side and unexpected bugs on the other. If you localise with my and Modularise the problems will mostly vanish. # you don't put subs in a mod perl script..... # unless you want lots of warnings.... # /o will bite you too.

It runs a lot deeper than that when you start hacking the api.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: What is mod_perl? by tachyon
in thread What is mod_perl? by selk

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