Webserver on Windows

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

Hello Monks,

I have a project that needs to run on various windows platforms where IIS may or may not be installed. Can anyone suggest a lightweight, portable Webserver that I could package up and serve up my Perl web application? I have been looking at Dancer, which is really cool. However, I am unsure (at least I can't get it to work) if I can use ODBC drivers for Sybase/MSSQL, which is a MUST for the procject.

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Re: Webserver on Windows by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2012 at 12:12 UTC
Dancer is written in Perl, so it can use all Perl modules, like DBD::ODBC. Also consider looking at Twiggy.	[reply]
Re: Webserver on Windows by tobyink (Canon) on Apr 05, 2012 at 18:25 UTC
Dancer is indeed cool. Shame it's not a web server. Dancer is a web application framework. Maybe look at Starman - not sure if it works on Windows, but can't see why it wouldn't. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: Webserver on Windows by temporal (Pilgrim) on Apr 05, 2012 at 19:38 UTC
Dancer does have a standalone deployment mode using HTTP::Server::Simple::PSGI OP, not sure why you are having issues getting ODBC working, as Corion said there are modules for it. Post your code? Anyway, I'm a big fan of Dancer.	[reply]
Re^2: Webserver on Windows by packetstormer (Monk) on Apr 05, 2012 at 18:29 UTC
Nope - Starman is Unix only. I've looked at that too.	[reply]
Re: Webserver on Windows by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2012 at 00:11 UTC
dancer comes with a webserver, same as catalyst, mojo .... and you can use all of them with plackup	[reply]