[Catalyst] web hosts supporting catalyst

[Adam Herzog]

> I was wondering what web hosts people use to host their catalyst sites.
>
> I went through dependency hell getting it to work on my development 
> machine
> using CPAN to install it into my home directory rather then system 
> wide. Some
> of the modules use Module::Build, which requires a different parameter 
> to
> install it into a custom destination. There are also problems with 
> newer
> versions of DBD::mysql and LIMIT placeholders. All of this makes me 
> doubt
> wether I will be able to get Catalyst working on a given host. Are 
> there any
> hosts that actually officially support Catalyst?

I have a Catalyst app running on Dreamhost.  It's not officially 
supported, but it does work. (Similarly, I have Trac running as well; 
again, not supported, but it works fine.)

One thing that helped with the modules and dependencies was using 
CPANPLUS to install the modules.  It lets you use different arguments 
for Build.PL and Makefile.PL, so that made the installation much easier 
than with CPAN.

The difficult part (for me, at least) was the fact that I don't have 
direct access to the httpd.conf, so I had to use a bunch of 
rewriterules in my .htaccess file so that everything worked like I 
wanted it to.  Basically, I had to create a fcgi file to wrap my cat 
app.  The rewriterules serve a file directly if it exists in 
root/static, otherwise it sends the request to my fcgi file.

Once I've done a little more development and testing with it, I was 
going to write up a quick how-to page for the wiki...

-Adam