Gordon has been kind enough to test the system and everything works fine apparently (http://gordon.2.ai)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu <mailto:gordon@cshl.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello David,
>>
>> I'd be happy to test it, I can put my dancer+bootstrap+fontawesome template ( http://cowbell.cancan.cshl.edu ) as an example.
>>
>> -gordon
>>
>>
>> gurugeek wrote, On 08/14/2012 03:26 PM:
>> > okay I found my own answer :)
>> > all is needed is mod_perl and Plack !
>> > Test is live at http://dancer.2.ai
>> > this is a simple test using a dancer self-contained one file app (using the tutorial from the advent calendar).
>> >
>> > Dave I would be thankful if you and/or others would be willing to test it with some other code. If you email me directly I will be glad to give you the SFTP login/pw.
>> > Best Regards
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:26 PM, gurugeek <gurugeekphp@gmail.com <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com> <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > or actually I just need
>> > mod_perl and Plack::Handler::Apache2
>> > as per :
>> > http://lists.perldancer.org/pipermail/dancer-users/2010-August/000199.html
>> >
>> > ?
>> >
>> > I was confused as the mod_apache is still listed in the plack website :)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM, David Precious <davidp@preshweb.co.uk <mailto:davidp@preshweb.co.uk> <mailto:davidp@preshweb.co.uk <mailto:davidp@preshweb.co.uk>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:01:30 +0200
>> > gurugeek <gurugeekphp@gmail.com <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com> <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com <mailto:gurugeekphp@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > hello,
>> > > we are finalising a totally free hosting service for programmers (
>> > > dotgeek.org <http://dotgeek.org> <http://dotgeek.org>). We used to run this in 2004-2005 with PHP 5 etc. and we
>> > > are now trying to extend the service to offer, in addition to PHP,
>> > > MySQL and Ruby (Sinatra, Camping) with Dancer.
>> > >
>> > > I did try it yesterday and today and I think it is very interesting
>> > > and we would like to add support for dancer.
>> >
>> > That's awesome - I'll be happy to provide whatever help I can.
>> >
>> >
>> > > I have a quick question regarding the best solution for a multiple
>> > > hosting environment (we are using apache with a and we have a proper
>> > > security system in place). According to your deployment guide the
>> > > PSGI + Apache setup will require the application URL in the vhost
>> > > configuration
>> > >
>> > > PerlSetVar psgi_app /websites/myapp.example.com/app.pl <http://myapp.example.com/app.pl> <http://myapp.example.com/app.pl>
>> > >
>> > > this might be an issue if the user rename the application. In sinatra
>> > > with a passenger deployment (aka mod_ruby) you can define a full
>> > > public folder and through the config.ru <http://config.ru> <http://config.ru> file, that is easier to edit
>> > > from the users that will have only SFTP access, you define which
>> > > application you wish to run.
>> > >
>> > > Is there a similar option with Dancer or there is a need to declare
>> > > the app name in the apache vhost configuration ?
>> >
>> > You could probably set up e.g. /home/$username/app.pl <http://app.pl> <http://app.pl> or similar which
>> > they can edit, which loads the appropriate app; they could edit that to
>> > choose which app to load, perhaps?
>> >
>> > Or use some Apache trickery to extract a subdomain from the query and
>> > use that as the path, as people often do with mass name-based virtual
>> > hosting, so e.g. app1.user.dotgeek.org <http://app1.user.dotgeek.org> <http://app1.user.dotgeek.org> is /home/$user/$app1/bin/app.pl <http://app.pl> <http://app.pl>
>> > etc - that way they could just upload a new app and hit
>> > $appname.$user.dotgeek.org <http://user.dotgeek.org> <http://user.dotgeek.org> or similar and have it Just Work (in theory).
>> >
>> > > I would also welcome any feedback about this service that will
>> > > essentially offer dancer + mysql + sqlite totally free. Do you think
>> > > it would be interested and help users to get started ?
>> >
>> > Certainly - the ability for a user to try out their first Dancer app
>> > for free without having to install stuff is likely to be of use to
>> > people I think. This is something I sort of toyed with the idea of
>> > trying to offer myself, but I decided I didn't have the time to
>> > implement it in a secure enough way and manage it closely enough to
>> > limit abuse etc (and to deal with the users, who from past experience
>> > will expect the moon on a stick, even though they're not paying a
>> > penny...)
>> >
>> > I note you've got reCAPTCHA which should keep out some users though, as
>> > it's become almost unusable these days :)
>> >
>> > Anyway - I, and the other Dancer core devs, will be happy to provide
>> > whatever assistance we can to you in order to get Dancer support into
>> > dotgeek.org <http://dotgeek.org> <http://dotgeek.org>.
>> >
>> > Cheers!
>> >
>> > Dave P
>> >
>> > --
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