Webserver/app in a box

[Johan Lindstrom]

At 15:54 2006-07-19, Joel Bernstein wrote:
>IIRC there's a nicely packaged apache+perl+... installer for win32
>available, can't remember where though. I'll look for it in a bit. If

Probably this one:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html


As a platform I'd probably go with Catalyst and the standalone server and 
avoid a separate web server. It's most likely responsive enough for a 
single user. Or s/Catalyst/$your_fave_framework/.

For packaging and easy deployment:
PAR   <-- good, on CPAN
PerlApp   <-- good, part of ActiveState's PDK
perl2exe   <-- haven't tried this, but hear it's good

If you build the exe as a GUI app, there won't be a console window when you 
launch the app which may be nice and/or confusing  :)

For installation:
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php   <-- my favourite
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page


/J

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