I would like to create a web app for my own use. It would run on my box and only listen on 127.0.0.1. It would only need to handle one client at a time (me) and only produce HTML output. It would be a CGI app so I would need an easy way to process form input. And it is also important to me that the server be as minimal as possible with regard to Perl modules needed, as I want it to be relatively easy to install for others.

I looked at CGI::MiniSvr, which might do the job, but the only place I can find it on CPAN is as part of some cvswebedit bundle.

Am I looking in the wrong direction? What modules should I use? Thanks for any help.

In reply to Creating a simple HTTPD in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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