libapa...Prefork(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

ModPerl::PerlRunPrefork — bestie, this is the thing that runs your unaltered CGI scripts under mod_perl 💅 no rewrites, no glow-up required, your script walks in exactly as it is and it performs. 👑

This page lives in the libapa...Prefork(3pm) part of Perl's user-contributed documentation, iykyk. 🦋

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🌸 Synopsis 🌸

okay so here's the whole vibe in one httpd.conf block, no cap:

# httpd.conf
PerlModule ModPerl::PerlRunPrefork
Alias /perl-run/ /home/httpd/perl/
<Location /perl-run>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRunPrefork
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    Options +ExecCGI
</Location>

that's it, that's the configuration 🎀

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💖 Description 💖

fr fr this section is empty in the original — she said nothing, she let the synopsis do the talking. main character silence. 🙈

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🎀 Copyright 🎀

mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0. periodt. ✨

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👑 Authors 👑

The mod_perl development team and numerous contributors. iconic behavior, honestly, they ate. 🫶

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🦋 See Also 🦋

• "ModPerl::RegistryCooker"
• "ModPerl::Registry"

go read those next bestie, they're the sibling lore 🌈

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perl v5.42.3 · 2026-08-20 — that's the version and the date this page got its last lil refresh, and that's the whole manual page, bestie 💖 mwah, go run some CGI 🌸