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How are PHP and Perl in competition? Many monks use PHP quite extensively, along with Java and numerous other languages. If PHP has a feature that is better than Perl's, then use PHP.

To address your specific concerns ...

It is strongly recommended, from both security experts and developers, that Apache/mod_perl not be used on Windows platforms. For a whole host of reasons. The Webserver I would use on Windows (if I had to deploy a webserver on Windows) would be IIS 6.0. I would also use .NET at that point, too.
HTML::Mason isn't the only application that doesn't work with mod_perl2. Which isn't that surprising as the API for mod_perl2 hasn't been finalized yet. Technically, it hasn't been released for production work. And, no, I have no idea why RedHat has chosen to offer it with the installation. Personally, I never use the pre-installed versions of anything, other than the OS. I always compile Apache, mod_perl, etc.
Installing Apache1 and mod_perl1 are both relatively easy tasks. There's one little gotcha (you have to make sure that mod_perl.pm is the right version - you can't have both working at the same time), but that's it.
If something is non-trivial for you, that's a fair complaint. However, just because it's non-trivial for you doesn't mean it's non-trivial for someone else. And, frankly, my opinion is that if installing Apache is non-trivial for you, writing a secure, clean, maintainable web application is going to be exceedingly difficult.

Another note - I have been developing webapps as a career in Perl since 1995. I have never even played with Mason. I have barely played with Template Toolkit. That is not the only way to develop webapps in Perl. In fact, it's not even close to being the most common way.

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In reply to Re: Why can't mod_perl+Mason just work? by dragonchild
in thread Why can't mod_perl+Mason just work? by gunzip

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