Hi, Can you advise as to which Linux Server Distro is the best to use for a Linux server to be used as an apache/mysql server with perl and cgi. Its for a test site I'd like to set up and convert an ASP site with databases and email to Perl CGI. I was thinking of using PHP but I know Perl reasonably well already so I'll start with that. Many thanks, Walt _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

On 06/30/2010 12:16 PM, walt wrote: > Hi, > > Can you advise as to which Linux Server Distro is the best to use for a > Linux server to be used as an apache/mysql server with perl and cgi.  Its > for a test site I'd like to set up and convert an ASP site with databases > and email to Perl CGI.  I was thinking of using PHP but I know Perl > reasonably well already so I'll start with that. > > Many thanks,  Walt > > > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug > I use cent os for Ubuntu for development. Our servers run Cent OS. either are pretty good for LAMP. imho _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

Hi, Can you advise as to which Linux Server Distro is the best to use for a Linux server to be used as an apache/mysql server with perl and cgi. Its for a test site I'd like to set up and convert an ASP site with databases and email to Perl CGI. I was thinking of using PHP but I know Perl reasonably well already so I'll start with that. Many thanks, Walt

Looks like I should go the PHP/PYTHON route anyway

Very useful advice, many thanks. Looks like I should go the PHP/PYTHON route anyway then. It might be less hassle in the long run. I'll do some more checking but I understand that PHP especially is completely portable. Walt -----Original Message----- From: staffslug-bounces(a)staffslug.org.uk [mailto:staffslug-bounces@staffslug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris 'BinGOs' Williams Sent: 30 June 2010 14:05 To: staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Best Linux Server Distro for LAM (perl/CGI) On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:16:12PM +0100, walt wrote: > Hi, > > Can you advise as to which Linux Server Distro is the best to use for > a Linux server to be used as an apache/mysql server with perl and cgi. > Its for a test site I'd like to set up and convert an ASP site with > databases and email to Perl CGI. I was thinking of using PHP but I > know Perl reasonably well already so I'll start with that. > > Many thanks, Walt > It doesn't really matter from perls point of view because it is portable and runs everywhere >:) You say CGI, CGI is hideously unscalable. Each request to a cgi script spawns a copy of the perl executable. ( All scripting languages suffer the same from this ). There are ways of mitigating this. One is with mod_perl extension to Apache, similiar to mod_php. This spawns a one copy of the perl executable in the webserver that then deals with all requests. This is hideous as well in its own way. a). You have to be careful with variables as the scripts are loaded up-front; b). now you have married your webserver and application and divorce is hard ( ie. doing webserver updates, perl updates, etc. could break things ). All the people I know in the Perl community who do web development are using FastCGI these days. The webserver deals with what it does best, serving web pages. It communicates over a socket to a perl application using the FastCGI protocol and the perl application sends stuff back over the same socket. a). The webserver and application are now separate and can be indepedently updated etc. b). The application can be moved to faster hardware if required Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ========================== _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

Very useful advice, many thanks. Looks like I should go the PHP/PYTHON route anyway then. It might be less hassle in the long run. I'll do some more checking but I understand that PHP especially is completely portable.

Hi all, Thanks for all your help, comments and suggestions. I am back at the drawing board as its getting too complicated now. All I want is to write the scripts which will execute correctly on any LAMP server. The current site (it's a local school) wants to get away from being tied to an asp server which limits their ability to host the site at a reasonable cost. I know ASP quite well and I can do all the HTML/CSS/Javascript bits. So all I need is a standard LAMP server on my LAN to test the conversion from ASP to PHP or whatever is most common. The only reason this site needs server side support is because of the databases being used and it also provides the ability to introduce sessions, blog(s), forums, comments page etc for parents and PTA etc to use at a later stage. So to re-phrase the question, what is the easiest route to achieve the above. Fortunately this is non-urgent. Walt _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug

In that case, just get your favourite flavour of Linux and stick Apache on their with PHP and mySQL and you're sorted. There are lots of guides around too... google for "ubuntu LAMP configuration" or other distribution..