[Templates] Enabling caching of templates under mod_perl?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Light <andrewlight7@googlemail.com> writes:

Andrew> I am currently running my web-app under mod_perl, but as far as I can
Andrew> see, none of the dynamic pages, put together using the TT is being
Andrew> chached.

a) Don't create the Template object on each hit.
b) Be sure CACHE_SIZE is undef, or set to a high value.
c) Set COMPILE_DIR to some place that the web process can write.

Step "a" is easy to get wrong, if you're converting CGI code to simply
using the Apache::Registry hack.  Be sure you have something like:

      our $engine ||= Template->new(...);

rather than:

      my $engine = Template->new(...);

which is how it would typically be written in CGI.

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