dynamic generation of web pages with apache2

[Chris Dawson]

Hi there,

I would like to find a dynamic HTML page generation solution using
vanilla ubuntu apache2 packages.  Does anyone have recommendations
(other than PHP) that can do this?  I'm open to any mod_perl, python,
or other solution that uses a template toolkit of some sort.  I really
need it to be very fast.  I want something simple and elegant, and am
worried about performance so I am not sure I want to roll something
myself using, for example, Ruby on Rails.  I was hoping for a set of
ubuntu packages that I allow me to just enable a few mods in apache,
update a configuration file, and then quickly write some HTML pages.

I started with HTML::Mason  I've been trying to get it working with
the default apache2 installation on Breezy.  Does anyone have a
working apache configuration file they could share?  I'm getting
various errors like "Can't locate object method "new" via package
"Apache2::Request" at /usr/share/perl5/HTML/Mason/ApacheHandler.pm
line 908.\n" in my apache logs.  I am not sure if HTML::Mason actually
works, or if there are just packages that install but don't work.  I
only state this because I know it was only recently that mod_perl
worked with Apache2, so I wonder if HTML::Mason is now working or not.

Thanks,
Chris