Mason Speedy CGI - HOWTO by Joseph Wang (joe@confucius.gnacademy.org) 2000 August 1 This is a Mini HOWTO on how to run Speedy CGI with Mason at http://www.masonhq.com The problem is that the instructions that are included with Mason require that you install mod_perl. Running mod_perl as a module with Mason on a Redhat system won't work, so you need to create a statically linked Apache-mod_perl. This is painful. The following is a much easier way to run Mason 1) Install Speedy CGI 2) Install HTML::Mason 3) Put the mason.cgi file in your cgi-bin directory, MAKE SURE THAT YOU MODIFY THE FILE FIRST. 4) Add the following line to your /etc/httpd/etc/httpd.conf ScriptAlias /mason/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/mason.cgi/ 5) (Optional) change your directory index to look like DirectoryIndex mason/index.html index.html (etc. etc. etc.) A *whole* lot less painful than installing mod_perl. TODO The next project I am working on is to get SpeedyCGI to work with Slashdot.