That article is DATED and obsolete. You don't need Apache, mod_lisp or any of the long laundry list of tools.
The game has changed boys and girls; these days you seat Lighthttpd or Nginx before a farm of Hunchentoots or SymbolicWebs, all sharing a Redis backend for session management, you use X-Sendfile for serving static content, and you rape the interwebs at 300k r/s off of a single $20 VPS account.
Lisp web could get really raw sometimes. But nothing is stopping you from firing up Hunchentoot on your localhost and developing for the web like you would write any other app (though you might wear out your Alt, Tab and F5 keys ;-)
P.S. Unix is not even a requirement; I hacks me farm on Win32 and deploys nightlies on some Linuses spread over 3 continents.
Sorry mahmud, I didn't see that it was so old (I just looked at it again...the comments are from 2003!)
I'm trying to learn a bit of linux and LISP, but I haven't been able to find any good "from scratch" tutorials on how to get Apache working with LISP/Scheme/Arc. I actually just started reading PG's book on LISP though, and I have a pretty good idea of how I want to implement LISP on IIS (I'm trying to do it as a learning exercise.)
Maybe I can write that much needed Hunchentoot 1.0.0 document. All the tutorials are for version 0.15.7; the API has changed since.
There are two issues involved here: 1) Do you want a "web app", or do you want a web platform. It's trivial to get an app up and running in 15 minutes. install hunchentoot, load it into your Lisp of choice and fire away (start by writing handlers, using CL-WHO.)
If you want a platfrom, then there are many many engineering decisions to be made. Performance, scalability, security, availability and most of all easy of deployment, development, upgrade and code aesthetics. You can use fastcgi and write Lisp scripts for Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd or any other industrial strength web server. Over the last few weeks I have hacked together various things that should be useful to people; an RBAC implementation, a Redis based message queue, some rudimentary code for managing server farms, etc.
You can use your RDBMS of choice; CL-SQL, Postmodern and Cl-Perec are all powerful ORMs and middleware. There also NoSQL solutions readily available to make you both proud and buzz-word compatible.
Read Cliki and you can find everything you need to create a URL shortner or a twitter clone right there.
Scheme community should have similar tools as well, though they're a bit more fragmented than we are.
The game has changed boys and girls; these days you seat Lighthttpd or Nginx before a farm of Hunchentoots or SymbolicWebs, all sharing a Redis backend for session management, you use X-Sendfile for serving static content, and you rape the interwebs at 300k r/s off of a single $20 VPS account.
Lisp web could get really raw sometimes. But nothing is stopping you from firing up Hunchentoot on your localhost and developing for the web like you would write any other app (though you might wear out your Alt, Tab and F5 keys ;-)
P.S. Unix is not even a requirement; I hacks me farm on Win32 and deploys nightlies on some Linuses spread over 3 continents.