Mason Speedy CGI - HOWTO
by Joseph Wang (joe@confucius.gnacademy.org)
2000 August 1
This is a Mini HOWTO on how to run Speedy CGI with Mason at
http://www.masonhq.com
The problem is that the instructions that are included with Mason
require that you install mod_perl. Running mod_perl as a module with
Mason on a Redhat system won't work, so you need to create a
statically linked Apache-mod_perl. This is painful.
The following is a much easier way to run Mason
1) Install Speedy CGI
2) Install HTML::Mason
3) Put the mason.cgi file in your cgi-bin directory, MAKE SURE THAT YOU
MODIFY THE FILE FIRST.
4) Add the following line to your /etc/httpd/etc/httpd.conf
ScriptAlias /mason/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/mason.cgi/
5) (Optional) change your directory index to look like
DirectoryIndex mason/index.html index.html (etc. etc. etc.)
A *whole* lot less painful than installing mod_perl.
TODO
The next project I am working on is to get SpeedyCGI to work with
Slashdot.