[Catalyst] new catalyst site - art calendar
I've finally launched all sections of my site: http://www.artcal.net/ It was originally a CGI::Application/TT app running under mod_perl, and now it's a Catalyst App running under mod_perl. It's the first week of a very big art season in NYC, and we just sent out the weekly newsletter with the list of openings. I'm expecting page views in the 6-10K per day range. I'm staying with mod_perl rather than lighttpd/fastcgi until I can convert the other applications that run on that server. The admin and public sites are separate apps running with a shared schema directory. I use HTML::FormFu plus jquery calendar and clockpick for the date and time entry on the backend, and Imager to reformat images. I'm also using a number of feeds such as flickr, blip.tv, and bloglines citations to show related materials. An example of an exhibition with all 3 is here (scoll down): http://www.artcal.net/event/view/6/4980 Thanks for Carl for all of the HTML::FormFu help, and MST in particular for catalyst and DBIC help. -- Barry Hoggard ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] New catalyst site - gardenate.com
It also served as an interesting exercise in getting a Cat site to run
under fastcgi on a host who don't really know how to support fastcgi,
using mod_rewrite to invoke the fastcgi server script.
Wife says That's very useful which is praise indeed.
Can you write up a short deployment scenario re the mod_rewrite and post it
here please?
Kieren, my thanks to your wife for the kind words, and also to
everyone else who responded through the contact page on the site. I
hope your wife signs up for the email reminders when I get them
implemented next week :-)
Re mod_rewrite:
The ISP said that they had installed and configured mod_fcgi at our
request, so we battled for a while to work out why a basic .fcgi
script wouldn't work. Turned out that they hadn't mapped any suffixes
to the fastcgi handlers, despite protestations to the contrary.
Finally this incantation did the trick with a copy of the
script/fastcgi.pl renamed to .fcgi and copied to the htdocs, together
with a 'use lib' to set up pathing to where the app files actually
live. The 'static' dir is sym-linked to the root/static dir to make
deployment simple and easy to maintain using rsync.
My final .htaccess file:
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !gardenate.fcgi
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ gardenate.fcgi/$1 [PT,L]
Hope this is useful. Comments and improvements welcomed.
- Chris
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[Catalyst] New catalyst site - gardenate.com
Hi, I'd just like to announce that a new Catalyst site, http://www.gardenate.com, has been launched on the unsuspecting world. Catalyst/DBIx::Class/Mysql/Fastcgi - it's served as a useful learning exercise about Chained handlers. I hope to use them again in future projects. Kudos to the Catalyst development team for making such a usable framework. It also served as an interesting exercise in getting a Cat site to run under fastcgi on a host who don't really know how to support fastcgi, using mod_rewrite to invoke the fastcgi server script. - Chris ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] New catalyst site - gardenate.com
On 10/03/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd just like to announce that a new Catalyst site, http://www.gardenate.com, has been launched on the unsuspecting world. Catalyst/DBIx::Class/Mysql/Fastcgi - it's served as a useful learning exercise about Chained handlers. I hope to use them again in future projects. Kudos to the Catalyst development team for making such a usable framework. It also served as an interesting exercise in getting a Cat site to run under fastcgi on a host who don't really know how to support fastcgi, using mod_rewrite to invoke the fastcgi server script. Wife says That's very useful which is praise indeed. Can you write up a short deployment scenario re the mod_rewrite and post it here please? - Chris ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
[Catalyst] New Catalyst site
Hi, I would like to announce that www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk has just been relaunched using Catalyst and mod_perl. For those that live outside the UK. The Manchester Evening News is the UK's most popular regional newspaper outside London and the sister paper of The Guardian (which started life as The Manchester Guardian). Carl ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] New Catalyst site
Am 28.02.2007 um 12:12 schrieb Carl Johnstone: I would like to announce that www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk has just been relaunched using Catalyst and mod_perl. Nice one, Carl! How is the content managed? I'd like to know if you integrated your Catalyst application with an existing content management system and if so, how you pulled this off. Having to choose a CMS and framework for a similar site myself this really could help me make a decision. --Tobias --Tobias ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] New Catalyst site
How is the content managed? I'd like to know if you integrated your Catalyst application with an existing content management system and if so, how you pulled this off. Having to choose a CMS and framework for a similar site myself this really could help me make a decision. We've got an existing CMS - Polymedia from an Italian company called TXT www.txt.it. It works using XML internally, and uses Oracle (or MS SQL) as a back-end database. It's quite good for integration and will feed data out (via XSLT) as XML or into a DB table etc. We've been using it for around 5 years now, and have built up an archive of around 150,000 articles for the MEN. In addition we have two other newspaper groups with 58,000 and 67,000 articles respectively. The downer is that the Polymedia interface is IE only (relies on MSXML), although it comes with an integrated, if basic, ActiveX image-editing component. So for an article, from Polymedia we generate 4 outputs. Firstly an XML file is stored on the filesystem for Catalyst use. Another XML file is generated and fed into FAST (www.fastsearch.com) which provides the search back-end for the site. Finally we feed some of the meta-data (not the full content) into DBs - both MySQL and Oracle. The static resources - images/audio/video - are all fed separately onto a dedicated server. MySQL is our new choice of DB and we use it to run things like most popular and most recent stories. The story comments are still in Oracle as we haven't (yet) redeveloped the interface the journalists use to manage these (that interface shows the journalist the headline and teaser of the story.) We use XML::Simple in a Catalyst model to parse stories into perl objects, making use of a FastMMap Cache (per-server) to store the parsed XML for up to 2 minutes. At the front-end we have three load-balanced webservers running Catalyst to serve the pages, and a further server to serve the static resources. We simply do this by using an alternate server name in the HTML rather than having to worry about proxies. We then just check the server logs to ensure that nothing is falling through. Think that's all, one of my colleagues lurks on the list so if I've posted something inaccurate it may tempt him into posting :-) Carl ___ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
