Hi Monks,

As (I suppose) some of you, I'm used carrying an usb key from home to work and back with all my perl scripts and miscellaneous docs (aka. an electronic attaché-case. ). Moreover, I use it for demos purpose, brain extension (e-books), and sensible admin tools (out of subject: the usb key I've found totally fits my needs being literally a swiss knife...).

Since the most of executable things on my key are perl scripts aiming Win32 systems (nobody's perfect), I embedded also an ActiveState distrib to enable nomad running.

And my problem is now that I want(require?) to be able to have running a tiny web server handling cgi requests on my usb key with features such as:

Here's the results of my searchs (not all have been tested):

Apache + mod _perl

The best for compatibility, but the storage overhead is too much for my poor less-sized key. Following links may give you hints:

  • DeveloperSide.NET: Windows 2000/XP building and configuration of apache2 and related.
  • All-in-one package: binary version of perl-5.8 (compatible with ActivePerl 8xx), together with Apache 2.0 and mod_perl 2.0

Pure perl web services

Only several things more or less meeting requirements:

  • HTTPi: Designed for Unix, doing forks.
  • p5httpd: Tiny HTTP server written in perl in order to run perl CGI scripts on EPOC machines. Run smoothly even if configuration is to be made directly in the code. No extra packages required. Spartiatic, but a must.
  • JellyBean: From chromatic. Aimed to be able to run Everything servers. Distributed as a framework, it needs several extra CPAN packages in order to run. Relies on HTTP::Daemon.
  • PerlWebServer: Promising small server. Development seems to have stopped for a log time.

I would be glad having feedback on these servers (or some others). Thanks.

Update: modified title as requested, corrected typo.

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HTH, Dominique
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In reply to Genuine Perl distrib with web servers by dfaure

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