I am working on getting perl re-installed on some of our HP-UX machines. I've managed to build it in a side directory (/home/me/bin to be precise) so that it doesn't much with any vendor supplied software and I am looking into creating some webservices. The only problem is that they seem to require mod_perl, which I am entirely clueless about at the moment.
This raises a few questions for me:
When I install mod_perl, will this affect any current programs that may be out there using /usr/bin/perl use CGI?
How can I be assured which copy of perl will be built into mod_perl
Could the installation of mod_perl cause anything to become broken or funny with other CGI (non-Perl) interactions?
My biggest fear is that some of our vendor-supplied code may be messed with by installing mod_perl into apache. like I said, mod_perl is completely new to me. Thanks for all the assitance.
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