http://www.dmi.me.uk/code/apache/mod_sqltemplate/

this module will do the work for you, I still haven't got time to test it
but for sure will do.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eldho [mailto:eldhokp...@gmail.com]
> Sent: sexta-feira, 17 de Abril de 2009 19:49
> To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: MySQL Virtual Host and Traffic Module
> 
> 
> Hi Vaughan,
> 
> What is the status of this module. Actually I am searching for a module
> that write all the vhost  configuration to a database and read it from
> db
> also.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Eldho
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Ingram wrote:
> >
> > Hi Vaughan,
> >> Thanks for the response. I haven't thought of doing the SQL query
> the way
> >> you suggested, however I agree that it will cause unnecessary load
> on
> >> busy
> >> servers and I would like to keep this as efficient as possible.
> >>
> >> The second option sounds more reasonable. I have already used
> threading
> >> to
> >> make a function which ticks on a configurable interval so I suppose
> each
> >> child process would dump data for each of its vhosts at this
> interval,
> >> using
> >> a query similar to what you have suggested.
> >>
> > I think that's probably the most sensible approach. It does mean that
> > you won't have up-to-the-moment statistics, and I would guess that
> you'd
> > have to play about with different intervals as the number of hosts
> grows
> > in order for it to scale. You may also want to consider somehow
> > staggering the updates, so they don't all happen at once. It may also
> be
> > advisable to perform an UPDATE rather than an INSERT... ON DUPLICATE
> > UPDATE once your module knows that there is a value that can be
> updated
> > (i.e. after the query has run once in the simple case, or once this
> > day/hour/etc in the complex case).
> >
> >> I think I might go with the second option for the time being and see
> how
> >> it
> >> goes but I am still interested to know if there is a way to store
> per
> >> vhost
> >> data across children?
> >>
> > I would be interested to know how things turn out, and I'd be
> interested
> > to see the final module. I've been thinking about writing a custom
> > bandwidth monitoring/limiting module myself, but if I don't need to
> > reinvent the wheel...
> >
> > I'm afraid I can't answer this question in a definite way, though.
> One
> > module that should store per-vhost data like this is mod_cband
> > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cband/>, so that might be worth
> looking
> > into.
> >
> > As a side note, I'd be interested to know how you create/template the
> > virtual hosts. I myself have written a database-backed templating
> module
> > that could be used for virtual hosting
> > (http://www.dmi.me.uk/code/apache/mod_sqltemplate/) and I'm curious
> to
> > see other approaches.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Vaughan
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave Ingram [mailto:d...@dmi.me.uk]
> >> Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 12:28 AM
> >> To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: MySQL Virtual Host and Traffic Module
> >>
> >> Vaughan,
> >>
> >>
> >>> What I have so far are 2 filters which gather the inbound traffic
> and
> >>> outbound traffic for each transaction. These work ok and when
> logging
> >>> transactions to file all of the in/out byte amounts appear to be
> >>> correct.
> >>> The first problem however, is that each child has its own set of
> memory
> >>>
> >> and
> >>
> >>> therefore keeps its own totals per virtual host. This also means
> that
> >>> multiple logging events occur for each transaction. I could just
> log
> >>> this
> >>> all to database but it would 1) be inefficient and 2) cause the
> size of
> >>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>> database to grow quite quickly.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> It sounds to me like you could go two ways with this. I don't know
> the
> >> format of your database table, but it should be possible to update
> it
> >> atomically using something like:
> >>
> >> INSERT INTO bandwidth (vhost_id, bw_in, bw_out) VALUES (42, 1124,
> >> 5023409) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE bw_in = bw_in + 1124, bw_out =
> bw_out +
> >> 5023409
> >>
> >> but that could lead to a lot of load. Another way might be for each
> >> child to collect statistics and only flush to the database
> periodically,
> >> say every 30 seconds (perhaps configurable on a per-vhost basis, so
> that
> >> load-heavy sites could have larger update intervals). It would still
> be
> >> possible to use the query above though.
> >>
> >> This query could probably even be updated to split statistics on a
> >> date/time basis, if you require more granular reporting.
> >>
> >> Or have I missed/misunderstood something?
> >>
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
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