Re: web apps on a limited access server (cpanel)

Are you dead set on using mod_perl and cpanel? Many cloud services offer PSGI support which opens the doors for any Plack-friendly framework (Catalyst, Dancer, Mojolicious), and frees you from much of the drudgery of hand-coding to mod_perl. In fact, Plack/PSGI is happy in a mod_perl environment, so you can stick with a mod_perl setup and still enjoy the benefits of a higher-level middleware. But to me the whole process gets a lot easier when you stop caring about mod_perl, and what back-end Plack sits on, and start using a modern web framework. My preference is Mojolicious, which handles json out of the box, and gives you a nice environment from which to code your web application (even if it includes Ajax).

Dave

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Re^2: web apps on a limited access server (cpanel) by jimbus (Friar) on Jul 24, 2012 at 02:53 UTC
I'm not deadset on anything and I guess that I have been out of the field for long enough that I'm barking up the wrong tree, which would explain why my google search have been utter fails. I have a series of WP sites hosted on one of the bigger hosts, so I thought that would be an obvious choice and they manage everything through cPanel. I built my web app and data mining empire at my previous employer on perl, mod_perl/mason, so again, seemed obvious. But I spent most of the whole day researching, with no luck (between keeping 4 kids cleaning, getting lunch and dinner and taking them to practices). So you think I'd be better served looking at a cloud service with PSGI/Plank and Mojolicious? This first app is something to use in family just to get my feet wet, but I have had my eye on a tracking app for a scouting org I am involved in... it'd be cool if I could make it generally available for little or nothing. Would you have a service you'd recommend for my sort of "grand designs"? Maybe offline? Thanks! --Jimbus aka Jim Babcock Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com	[reply]

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Re^2: web apps on a limited access server (cpanel)
by jimbus (Friar) on Jul 24, 2012 at 02:53 UTC

I'm not deadset on anything and I guess that I have been out of the field for long enough that I'm barking up the wrong tree, which would explain why my google search have been utter fails.

I have a series of WP sites hosted on one of the bigger hosts, so I thought that would be an obvious choice and they manage everything through cPanel. I built my web app and data mining empire at my previous employer on perl, mod_perl/mason, so again, seemed obvious. But I spent most of the whole day researching, with no luck (between keeping 4 kids cleaning, getting lunch and dinner and taking them to practices).

So you think I'd be better served looking at a cloud service with PSGI/Plank and Mojolicious? This first app is something to use in family just to get my feet wet, but I have had my eye on a tracking app for a scouting org I am involved in... it'd be cool if I could make it generally available for little or nothing. Would you have a service you'd recommend for my sort of "grand designs"? Maybe offline?

Thanks!

--Jimbus aka Jim Babcock
Wireless Data Engineer and Geek Wannabe
jim-dot-babcock-at-usa-dot-com

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