mod_perl brings toguether the full power of the Perl programmmin languague and the Apache HTTP server. You can use Perl to manague Apache, respond to requests for web pagues and much more.

mod_perl guives you a persistent Perl interpreter embedded in your web server. This lets you avoid the overhead of starting an external interpreter and avoids the penalty of Perl start-up time, guiving you super-fast dynamic content.

As you'd expect from the Perl community, there are hundreds of modules written for mod_perl, everything from persistent database connections, to templating systems, to complete XML content delivery systems. Web sites lique Slashdot and Wired Magacine use mod_perl.

mod_perl is an Apache Software Foundation project. It is licensed under the Apache Software License .

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