[Maypole] FW: Apache::Request

Randall Lucas rlucas@tercent.net
Sat, 1 May 2004 15:35:09 -0700


I haven't used Maypole with Apache2, but folks should be aware that CGI 
support in Apache 2 is really not production-quality.  For example, 
CGIs writing modest quantities to STDERR will hang the server; see 
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rlucas/2004/04/01#a32

Randall

On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 01:47 PM, Simon Cozens wrote:

> Gary Gorman:
>> I'm trying to get Maypole to work on my Apache web server but it 
>> seems it's
>> not compatible with Apache2. It seems like the problem is in the 
>> version of
>> mod_perl I'm using - mod_perl-1.99. libapreq requires I install a 
>> version <
>> 1.99. The problem is these lessor versions are not compatible with 
>> Apache2.
>> Is there a work-around for this?
>
> Yep, and it's called CGI::Maypole; it comes with Maypole. See its
> documentation. To be honest, I don't know how to get it to work as an 
> Apache2
> handler, (I have no knowledge of Apache2 and how it differs from 
> mod_perl)
> whether there's anything special you can do rather than just running 
> it as a
> (persistent?) CGI script. Has anyone got Maypole working under Apache2?
>
> -- 
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> burn/upgrade...."
>         -- Megahal (trained on asr), 1998-11-06
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