[Catalyst] Apache + mod_perl + Digest-SHA fails

[Octavian Râsnita]

From: "Stuart Watt" <swatt at infobal.com>

> Tomas Doran wrote:
>> Er, no - your fcgi process manager loads the app and calls fork() for
>> you, so you get memory sharing.
> Sorry, you're right - we're using a very limited process manager and it
> doesn't fork. We use some nasty nonthreadsafe legacy C code.
>
> Since on Windows both types of fork are emulated in Perl, whether in
> mod_perl or in the FCGI process manager, I guess the performance is
> almost equivalent. (Is this true? -- anybody benchmarked the two??)
>
> That just leaves the pain of setting up mod_perl. I used to do that, but
> I never really enjoyed it.
>
> --S


If you use ActivePerl under Windows, mod_perl can be installed from the 
TheoryX ppm repository and it doesn't require too much configuration.

Using fastcgi under Windows is harder, and I don't even know if it can run 
as an ExternalServer.

Octavian