Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, by Lincoln Stein and Douglas MacEachern, published by O'Reilly and Associates. This book describes Apache and mod_perl in detail, including how to write handlers of nearly every flavor.
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, at http://www.cpan.org. This is a distributed repository of Perl modules, including mod_perl and Apache::Session.
Apache, the open-source web server, is available for download from http://www.apache.org. As of this writing, the latest version is 1.3.6. Many Linux distributions already come with Apache, but not all come with the latest version or with readily available source code. If you want to install mod_perl, you will need to recompile Apache, so consider downloading the source.
DBI, the Perl database interface, is available from CPAN.
MySQL, a “mostly free” relational database that is popular with many webmasters, is available for free download from http://www.mysql.com/. The client and server are free for your own use, and can be downloaded in source or binary form for Linux.
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