Wil — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:36:44 +0000

Ah, OK. Sorry, I must have misunderstood you the first time. No, I have never written a module for Apache.

But my initial answer was why don't you use mod_perl to load your data structures into memory?

critical — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:24:14 +0000

Admittedly I'm not an expert on what mod_perl does or how it does it. My understanding is that it greatly speeds up Apache's ability to run Perl scripts because most of the Perl "overhead" is done on Apache-start rather than every time every individual Perl script runs. Because of this I would never run Apache without mod_perl.

My original question was... is anybody out there a sophisticated enough web developer to have written their own Apache modules? O'Reilly has a whole book on the subject. I'm definitely *not* talking about reinventing the wheel and re-writing mod_perl.

And we're not talking about brain-surgery here... a simple example would be to load $MY_CONSTANT = "3.14" into memory every time Apache starts so that it is available as an environmental variable to all scripts. My original example would be to load a much larger, more complex data structure into memory - so that every time a script runs it doesn't have to repeat this processing and use up additional memory.

Anybody out there doing this? Thanks in advance...

Wil — Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:34:44 +0000

Then I recommend you looking into that for what you want to do instead of rolling out your own module.

critical — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:32:36 +0000

Yes, mod_perl is already installed on my server.

Wil — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:38:58 +0000

You looked into mod_perl ?