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Mar 07.2006

My project needs to develop a web-based GUI for controlling remote server applications. I am completely new to this, and am looking for suggestions on what platform to approach this problem.

The requirements are 1) needs to be lightweight/portable with minimal installation requirements (i.e. not planning on using a DB backend), and 2) the customer dislikes PHP. Most of the control functions are coded in Perl.

I have looked at frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Turbogears, etc – but these seem to be overkill. Any thoughts for a newb?

TIA,
Rich

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@ray326Mar 08.2006 — Most of the control functions are coded in Perl.[/QUOTE]Then it sounds like CGI with Perl is a natural fit BUT that's a horrible platform for page generation. The customer needs to worry about functionality not construction. PHP should be considered.
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@rmfoughtauthorMar 09.2006 — I've been experimenting with PHP and Dmitry Stogov's nifty [URL=http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-perl.php]Perl extension[/URL] but I am running into segfaults on Apache 2, apparently due to some sort of incompatibility between PHP and Apache's threaded MPM. I don't think requiring Apache be compiled with prefork MPM is an option, at least not an attractive one anyway. The goal is to drop in on a standard web server. Maybe the pre-fork MPM should be the standard? ?
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