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• Some justification (Score:2)

  by Matts (1087)

  You've got a pretty big vested interest in Apache/mod_perl, and while I did previously, I don't any more. I have to be honest in that writing AxKit2 this way was mostly because I was curious as to how good it could be. I know pretty much for a fact that it'll be slower than mod_perl, because Apache2's connection handling and perl integration is very well built and designed.
  
  However now AxKit2 is built I find it much easier to hack on than mod_perl, and not just because I know the internals. Adding a new conf
  • Re:Some justification (Score:1)

    by perrin (4270) on 2006.09.01 16:31 (#49716) Journal

    Adding config stuff was pretty bad in mod_perl 1. It's supposedly easy in mod_perl 2, but I've never wanted to add a config directive so it's not something I pay attention to. I really don't use any of the Perl config stuff in mod_perl at all. It just doesn't appeal to me.

    Profiling, quick restarts -- well, they work for me in mod_perl. (This reminds me of working at a place that used IBM WebSphere, where restarting the dev tools to pick up a code change took 10 minutes! What a pig that thing was.)

    You might be able to get the best of both worlds on the auth front by using AxKit2 as your application server and proxying from an apache2 front-end that runs an auth plugin. I do this with mod_auth_tkt, which lets me keep the actual auth code in Perl but have the proxy do the auth checks on static files. You'll lose the simplicity of your setup though.

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    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Matts (1087)

      I think partly people don't add custom config in mod_perl apps because they're hard (still non-trivial in mod_perl2 - that was one of my stumbling blocks in doing a straight AxKit port to mp2), and partly because they are satisfied with "PerlSetVar" which I never really liked as it didn't seem to cope with multivalues terribly well, and partly because none of the introductory docs cover them. I've tried to make sure my introductory docs jump right into them because they're terribly useful.
      
      Another option I'm