Running Node.js in apache?

Question

We have an Apache Webserver installed on a machine which also serves pages using Perl.

For a project I\'ve decided to use Node.js instead of Perl/Ruby. Just wonderin

Answer 1

If you're using PHP you can funnel your request to Node scripts via shell_exec, passing arguments to scripts as JSON strings in the command line. Example call:

The caveat is you need to be very careful about handling user data when it goes anywhere near a command line. Example nightmare: