title: mod_perl (without the perl) alternative apache API scriptable modules
body: <p>I recently looked at a project called <a href="http://lemonldap-ng.org/welcome/" rel="nofollow">lemonldap-ng</a> - which is a nice little portal front end to configurable authentication backend, and it uses LDAP and perl.</p>
  
  <p>It was close to what I am  looking to develop/implement, which is a (very simple) portal system for our various intranet end-points but it is a little but limited, and I need to extend it. </p>
  
  <p>However after 2 weeks I gave up, mainly because the perl module and class structure was doing my head in, and that I don't know perl, and also that I think that project (not unlike most opensource projects) has limited documentation, and is kind of a pet project for the developers.</p>
  
  <p>Is there is a similarly scriptable alternative to mod_perl that implements the type of Bucket Brigades style content filtering, and also arbitrary authentication filters based on filters and Handlers?</p>
  
  <p>(I dont know any c either, so writing modules like that is also right out)</p>