| | Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour | | Table of Contents | | | | Chapter 15. Web Server Programming with mod_perl |
15.2 Design of mod_perl mod_perl is not a Perl module. It is a module of the Apache server, which is currently the most commonly used web server. With mod_perl, you can use Apache configuration directives not only to process CGI scripts much more efficiently , but also to handle all stages in processing a server request. mod_perl embeds a copy of the Perl interpreter into the Apache httpd executable, providing complete access to Perl functionality within Apache. This enables a set of mod_perl-specific configuration directives, all of which start with the string Perl*. Most of these directives are used to specify handlers for various stages of the request, but not all. In addition, mod_perl lets you embed Perl code into your Apache configuration files (within <Perl> ... </Perl> directives) and allows you to use Perl for server side includes. |