Get mod_perl here as Zaxo says it is what you are looking for, ready to go. Seeing you mention slashdot (who get slashdotted all the time ;-) you may be interested to know they use mod_perl. While you are at it I recommend you to have a look at Apache::DynaGzip which will gzip your content on the fly (static or dymanic) thus cutting your bandwidth use radically as well as making the end user experience better. Most big sites use some form of gzip compression. In case you don't know browsers can decompress gzip streams so (provided they accept it) you send the content gzipped and they decompress it locally. It is a real win-win.
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Well, I also remembered mod_perl, and well, I just forgot to mention it in the OP.
However, from what little I did manage to gather from the documentation, it appeared to be a method of internal server scripting or a method to write server modules without going into C.
How does Apache know that some scripts are Perl, and others are, I dunno, python, bash, tcsh, or just about anything else somebody would be silly enough to mix in with Perl? Does it check the shebang?
I guess the main thing would be that I did not wish to rely on a single piece of software to have this work with. Though that is curable by a simple switcher script (if feature is available, use it, if not, don't use it)
Also, other than ye' ol' RTFM, what articles, places on the web, what have you, are there to learn about mod_perl? As maybe shown above, previous attempts left me... well not that decently knowledgable
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