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Perl may have had a better runtime, but PHP was effectively faster since it had an easy to use apache module and most perl code was being run as cgi scripts, wh
by andrewvc 17y ago
Perl may have had a better runtime, but PHP was effectively faster since it had an easy to use apache module and most perl code was being run as cgi scripts, which is hardly performant. I remember trying to configure mod perl and mason circa 2002, and it was an excercise in poor documentation and pain. PHP was dead simple to setup. That said I still stuck with Perl (eventually moving to Ruby), and I loathe PHP.
- jrockway 17y agoInstalling mod_php: apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 a2enmod php Installing mod_perl: apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2 a2enmod perl But, in general, running app code in the webserver is a bad idea. This is why everyone uses fastcgi in production, and why every web framework (except PHP) ships a standalone dev server for development work. PHP is the one that's hard to use now, unless you are developing on an already-configured system.