Gordon has been kind enough to test the system and everything works fine apparently (http://gordon.2.ai
question: do dancer developers usually develop locally and can then drop their app in our free hosting via SFTP or is SSH access a must (I don't see how thou as other services just give git push to deploy)  just thought i would ask before running more tests :)
Best Regards
David


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>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu <mailto:gordon@cshl.edu>> wrote:
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>>     Hello David,
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>>     I'd be happy to test it, I can put my dancer+bootstrap+fontawesome template ( http://cowbell.cancan.cshl.edu ) as an example.
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>>     -gordon
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>>     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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