Best Practices for mod_perl, mod_python, and mod_php

Hello -

I've inherited a system from our development group, and I've been
attempting to find information on recommended best practices for
running mixed mod_perl, mod_python and mod_php simultaneously on
Apache HTTPd using mod_prefork. Unfortunately, my Google-fu hasn't
produced much in the way of useful information, and I didn't find
anything specific to this on the Apache.org site.

My gut instinct is to break the installation into multiple instances,
each one servicing one of the mod_* services, but I'm hoping to
find hard information on whether or not this is correct.

Many thanks for your time,

R.

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Re: Best Practices for mod_perl, mod_python, and mod_php

On 04/03/10 02:59, The Gaijin wrote:
>
> Hello -
>
> I've inherited a system from our development group, and I've been
> attempting to find information on recommended best practices for
> running mixed mod_perl, mod_python and mod_php simultaneously on
> Apache HTTPd using mod_prefork. Unfortunately, my Google-fu hasn't
> produced much in the way of useful information, and I didn't find
> anything specific to this on the Apache.org site.
>
> My gut instinct is to break the installation into multiple instances,
> each one servicing one of the mod_* services, but I'm hoping to
> find hard information on whether or not this is correct.
>
> Many thanks for your time,
>
> R.
>
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I refrain from using any embedded interpreters. It doesn't give optimum
performance. Use mod_fcgid which will give you performance as well as
security since it possible to use suExec with mod_fcgid.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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Re: Best Practices for mod_perl, mod_python, and mod_php

On 2 Apr 2010, at 22:29, The Gaijin wrote:

> I've inherited a system from our development group, and I've been
> attempting to find information on recommended best practices for
> running mixed mod_perl, mod_python and mod_php simultaneously on
> Apache HTTPd using mod_prefork. Unfortunately, my Google-fu hasn't
> produced much in the way of useful information, and I didn't find
> anything specific to this on the Apache.org site.

Why would you expect to find anything specific? There's no
recommended 'best practice' for using multiple scripting
languages and environments: you could use the modules,
or CGI/fastcgi, or proxy a backend. The only issue that arises
from using more than one together is the risk of being bitten
by some bug, but you won't know until you try.

One thing I would suggest: either compile everything yourself
or install everything from distro packages, don't mix-and-match.
The latter might put you at higher risk of linking multiple
versions of the same library.

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Nick Kew

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