Who Should Attend:
All those interested in going beyond CGI programming, from the surface and into the depths of the Apache API.

Dive deeply into mod_perl and discover how and why there is much more to Web server programming than CGI. Find out what can be accomplished by taking advantage of everything Apache has to offer.

mod_perl is an Apache server plugin module that embeds a Perl interpreter into the server and provides object-oriented Perl interfaces to the Apache API.

Course Outline:

• The Apache module architecture
• The Apache API
• Writing content handlers
• Authentication and authorization
• Implementing HTTP proxy modules
• Implementing logging modules
• Server configuration with Perl
• Implementing configuration directives
• Development and debugging tools
• Perl code optimization