Re^3: Do you hide .pl extension on web pages?

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Re^4: Do you hide .pl extension on web pages? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 24, 2013 at 09:10 UTC
The trick is it is both. The application can run in a Plack web-server (Starman, Twiggy, Corona), but without one, it starts its own little webserver. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^4: Do you hide .pl extension on web pages? by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Jan 24, 2013 at 10:47 UTC
Dancer is a framework for building web applications and, like most such frameworks these days, it includes its own mini-webserver to use for development, so that you don't need to have a "real" HTTP server running on your dev machine. When you're ready to deploy the app, it's up to you whether you want to have it run as a native PSGI application, as CGI, as FastCGI, or whatever other way you might come up with.	[reply]
Re^4: Do you hide .pl extension on web pages? (PSGI Application) by Anonymous Monk on Jan 24, 2013 at 09:34 UTC
Script or webserver? Application Dancer provides you with a bunch of fancy keywords, but its really just a fancy PSGI application at heart :) and can run on any PSGI server without modification (or CGI or mod_perl or whatever .... ) thanks to Plack Most any CGI program with proper scoping of variables ( CGI to mod_perl Porting. mod_perl Coding guidelines ) can be trivially converted into a PSGI application, and it can run on Dancer/Mojo... Plack, any PSGI server, and it can have as NICE or CRAZY of a url as you want (provided you abstracted your url/link writing stuff so its easy to customize) Try it out cgi-app / mojo / dancer / catalyst / titanium and you'll see they all generate a module and various scripts, for example $ dancer -a MyDancerApp + MyDancerApp + MyDancerApp\bin + MyDancerApp\bin\app.pl + MyDancerApp\config.yml + MyDancerApp\environments + MyDancerApp\environments\development.yml + MyDancerApp\environments\production.yml + MyDancerApp\views + MyDancerApp\views\index.tt + MyDancerApp\views\layouts + MyDancerApp\views\layouts\main.tt + MyDancerApp\MANIFEST.SKIP + MyDancerApp\lib MyDancerApp\lib + MyDancerApp\lib\MyDancerApp.pm + MyDancerApp\public + MyDancerApp\public\css + MyDancerApp\public\css\style.css + MyDancerApp\public\css\error.css + MyDancerApp\public\images + MyDancerApp\public\500.html + MyDancerApp\public\404.html + MyDancerApp\public\dispatch.fcgi + MyDancerApp\public\dispatch.cgi + MyDancerApp\public\javascripts + MyDancerApp\public\javascripts\jquery.js + MyDancerApp\t + MyDancerApp\t\002_index_route.t + MyDancerApp\t\001_base.t + MyDancerApp\Makefile.PL app.pl runs the built-in Dancer webserver unless it is loaded via Plack::Runner or other PSGI webserver, which is done via dispatch.cgi so you can run it from a cgi-bin :) See Dancer::Deployment - common ways to put your Dancer app into use Also, search around for plack/dancer slideshows/presentations, they give a nice overview	[reply]
Re^4: Do you hide .pl extension on web pages? by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 24, 2013 at 14:08 UTC
Just to add to the pile, I used Dancer at my last employer, and while there's a learning curve, it also makes all kinds of things way easy. One of the cool things you can do is write an application, then have Dancer run your application locally (usually on port 3000) for you to fool around with. No fiddling around with Apache, just go! Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]


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