Writing mod_ perl Scripts
In general, writing CGI scripts to run under mod_perl doesn’t differ much from writing them for execution under a standalone Perl process. Therefore, if you create a standalone script in the cgi-bin directory, you often can expect that moving it to the cgi-perl directory won’t cause problems, the script will just run faster. The perl-test.pl script we used earlier to test the mod_perl configuration was an example of this: It functioned properly whether run from cgi-bin or from cgi-perl. You can try this with other scripts as well. For example, you can move the scripts developed in Chapter 2 from cgi-bin to cgi-perl to see whether they work properly.
That’s not to say that there are never any problems using CGI scripts ...
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