General mod_perl help needed

monkeybus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello folks. I've been charged with building a website.

The user will log in, upload an audio file, and then it will be transcoded and streamed (progressively downloaded as a flash movie) back to whoever.

I've plenty of experience of Linux, and all the component parts (mysql, ffmpeg) of this project, and to glue it all together with a few Perl or Bash scripts would be no problem.

But this has to be done with Apache and mod_perl (new to me).

Can anybody point me in the right direction regarding modules, howtos, et al?

I am currently tearing through O'Reilley's Practical Mod_Perl. God bless all you monks.

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Re: General mod_perl help needed by almut (Canon) on Dec 24, 2008 at 07:57 UTC
The documentation section on `perl.apache.org` would definitely be a good starting point...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: General mod_perl help needed by deepakg (Novice) on Dec 30, 2008 at 15:05 UTC
Which version of mod_perl are you going to use? O'Reilley's Practical Mod_Perl is great for mod_perl 1.x but only touches upon mod_perl 2. A lot of things have changed since the book came out and initially I had trouble making even the basic examples work (especially ones involving Response Handlers). Fortunately the documentation on perl.apache.org is superb and even has a migration guide to mod_perl2: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/porting/compat.html	[reply]