LAMP With Perl

[run4flat]

ankursethi, you area golden god! I would thank you (formally) if I could, but I can't find a ribbon.

Let me be specific. This gets my perl working:

<Files ~ "\.(pl|cgi)$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
    Options +ExecCGI
    PerlSendHeader On
</Files> 

Thank you thank you thank you!

Problem is, as you may have guessed, this is not the most secure thing. If somebody managed to get a malicious perl script onto your system, they would be able to run it without much trouble simply by navigating to it with their browser.

For my part, I would love to set up a perl CGI. Problem is, I can't figure out how. I think it should be really simple, but I've spent the past 2 hours unsuccessfully looking. Your directive is the first one that gets any perl working for me.

Why is this not automatically set up with the mod_perl deb? Unless my memory fails me, PHP worked out-of-the box.

[TechZilla]

resurrected from long slumber...

If you are writing new Perl based web scripts, you should strongly look at CGI::Fast

[slavik]

look into Mason (HTML::Mason), it is a very nice templating framework for Perl (I prefer it over CGI based stuff).