Re: Regarding the PerlAuthenHandler[2]

2001-05-11 Thread Jeff Sheffield

You should see this one.

Compiled-in modules:
-- snip --
  mod_perl.c

see 
http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html
for how to build mod_perl against apache

Jeff

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:50:21PM -, qazi Ahmed wrote:
 Hi..
 When i am giving the command:
 ./httpd -l in the bin directory of apache
 i get the following details:
 
 rad-sun-2 ./httpd -l
 Compiled-in modules:
   http_core.c
   mod_env.c
   mod_log_config.c
   mod_mime.c
   mod_negotiation.c
   mod_status.c
   mod_include.c
   mod_autoindex.c
   mod_dir.c
   mod_cgi.c
   mod_asis.c
   mod_imap.c
   mod_actions.c
   mod_userdir.c
   mod_alias.c
   mod_access.c
   mod_auth.c
   mod_setenvif.c
 suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper 
/export/home/ats/test-tools/ats/guts/apache/bin/suexec
 rad-sun-2 
 
 
 
 What should i get  actually to confirm that  mod_perl is installed properly.
 And further if suexec is an error, please reply by sending the solution to overcome 
it.
 Thanks and regards
 Qazi
 
 
 - Original Message --
 Owen Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 To:qazi Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 From:Owen Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date:Fri, 11 May 2001 14:01:11 +0200
 Subject: Re: Regarding the PerlAuthenHandler
 
 qazi Ahmed wrote:
  
  Syntax error on line 547 of 
/export/home/ats/test-tools/ats/guts/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
  Invalid command 'PerlRequire', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not 
included in the server configuration
 
 Are you *really* sure you have installed mod_perl? Try ./httpd -l to
 list the modules and check..
 
 Rgds,
 
 Owen Boyle.
 
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Re: ticketsystem

2001-01-10 Thread Jeff Sheffield

 I noticed that the MS Explorer remembers both username and corresponding
 password, making the cookie based authentication system useless.
 (closing and reopening all windows does not help)
pure evil..!! (IMHO)
I don't use exploder very often...
is this really true..??


On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:08:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 Hi
 
 I am using a cookie based authentication scheme.
 Cookie expires therefore login again. ( like the ticket master example in
 O'reilly's.)
 
 
 
 
 I noticed that the MS Explorer remembers both username and corresponding
 password, making the cookie based authentication system useless.
 (closing and reopening all windows does not help)
 
 So using the default browser preferences is no good. Does anybody know 
 which browser preference is involved here.
 
 Arnold
 
 
 
Thanks, 
Jeff


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Re: perl calendar application

2001-01-07 Thread Jeff Sheffield

 build something large.  (Trying to build a garden with three different
 climates and have it work as one big garden is a huge challenge and
 certainly not worth pursuing if you're trying to maximize production.)  
I agree with this... however if you have to play in that garden
 because half of you developers are PHP developers and have are perl
 developers.

then take a look at this module.
Apache::ProxyStuff
I believe the module was originally written to play
will with domonio apps. 
We used it to have a mason back ended server playing
with a php back ended server and then unifying the site.

This is really cool when you are "lazy" and you wan to install
some app that already written. 
no more 
Gosh darn ... that is just what I need
 guess i will have to port it.

Jeff

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:38:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Blue Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] espoused:
  Eh, I'm prepared to take my lynching, but I'd just like to remind
  everyone that there's nothing at all wrong with using PHP for things
  like this. You'll never be a worse person for learning something new,
  and the overheard required to manage a php+perl enabled apache is only
  minimally more than managing one or the other.
 
  IMHO, it's just lame to rewrite something for which there exists
  dozens of good apps just because of the language im which it is
  written. You might as well be arguing about GPL/BSD/Artistic at that
  point.
 
 I'm not going to get sucked into a language advocacy debate.  But at least
 in my case, your comments are quite off base.
 
 A) I don't need to learn PHP.  I learned PHP four or five years ago.  The
 experience wasn't pleasant.  My most recent experience with PHP was to
 port a PHP3 app from PostgreSQL to MySQL.  It was very tedious and still
 unpleasant.  (Yes PHP4 supposed finally has a real database interface like
 DBI, but most of the apps out there aren't written for PHP4.)
 
 B) Simplicity is good.  The fewer things running inside my web server to
 meet my needs the better.  This is a security issue as well as an ease of
 maintenance issue.
 
 C) We are organizationally committed to perl.  Our employees and
 contractors are not expected to know PHP and most are quite happy that I
 don't make them write in PHP.  A long term strategy of keeping my
 programmers (including myself) happy seems like a good thing.
 
 D) (And I think this is the most important point of all.)  There are good
 reasons for deciding on a language and sticking with it if your hope is to
 build something large.  (Trying to build a garden with three different
 climates and have it work as one big garden is a huge challenge and
 certainly not worth pursuing if you're trying to maximize production.)  
 My hope is to take the calendar portion of things and build upon it.  
 Ultimately I'd like to have something that has the functionality of
 Outlook plus bugzilla.
 
 I've gotten several emails privately with offers of source for various "in
 progress" projects that people say they're willing to make open source.  I
 will keep the list informed.
 
 -- 
 /chris
 
 Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to buy Microsoft products.
Thanks, 
Jeff

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Re: the edge of chaos

2001-01-03 Thread Jeff Sheffield

this is not the solution...
but it could be a bandaid until you find one.
set the MaxClients # lower.

# Limit on total number of servers running, i.e., limit on the number
# of clients who can simultaneously connect --- if this limit is ever
# reached, clients will be LOCKED OUT, so it should NOT BE SET TOO
LOW.
# It is intended mainly as a brake to keep a runaway server from
taking
# the system with it as it spirals down...
#
MaxClients 150

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:25:04PM -0500, Justin wrote:
 Hi, and happy new year!
 
 My modperl/mysql setup does not degrade gracefully when reaching
 and pushing maximum pages per second  :-) if you could plot 
 throughput, it rises to ceiling, then collapses to half or less,
 then slowly recovers .. rinse and repeat.. during the collapses,
 nobody but real patient people are getting anything.. most page
 production is wasted: goes from modperl--modproxy--/dev/null
 
 I know exactly why .. it is because of a long virtual
 "request queue" enabled by the front end .. people "leave the
 queue" but their requests do not.. pressing STOP on the browser
 does not seem to signal mod_proxy to cancel its pending request,
 or modperl, to cancel its work, if it has started.. (in fact if
 things get real bad, you can even find much of your backend stuck
 in a "R" state waiting for the Apache timeout variable
 to tick down to zero..)
 
 Any thoughts on solving this? Am I wrong in wishing that STOP
 would function through all the layers?
 
 thanks
 -Justin
Thanks, 
Jeff

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Apache::AuthCookieDBI BEGIN problems...??

2001-01-02 Thread Jeff Sheffield

Well been racking my brain against this one for awhile now..
so I figured that I would reach-out for some help ;)
First let me say
I am ashamed ... I twitled with the shiny bits.

the following code in the Apache::AuthCookieDBI module
does not work properly (for me).

-- code -- 
BEGIN {
my @keyfile_vars = grep {
   $_ =~ /DBI_SecretKeyFile$/ } keys %{ Apache-server-dir_config() };
   foreach my $keyfile_var ( @keyfile_vars ) {
   my $keyfile = Apache-server-dir_config( $keyfile_var );
   my $auth_name = $keyfile_var;
   $auth_name =~ s/DBI_SecretKeyFile$//;
   unless ( open( KEY, "$keyfile" ) ) {
Apache::log_error( "Could not open keyfile for $auth_name in 
file $keyfile" );
} else {
$SECRET_KEYS{ $auth_name } = KEY;
close KEY;
}
   }
### MY DIRTY HACK
my $auth_name = "WhatEver";
$SECRET_KEYS{ $auth_name } = "thisishtesecretkeyforthisserver";
### END MY DIRTY HACK
}
-- end code --

Note that without MY DIRTY LITTLE HACK it does not set those two
variables. I am/was pretty sure that this somehow relates to
"StackedHandlers"
but
I built mod_perl statically with ALL_HOOKS=1 EVERYTHING=1
it is  Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24_01 configured 

So after I set MY DIRTY LITTLE HACK. Things chug right along
i bind to the database I authenticate against the db.
until I/the module tries to set_cookie in the form 
Set-Cookie: 
Apache::AuthCookieDBI_WhatEver=jeff:2001-01-02-23-07-10:2001-01-02-23-12-10:2f8e147086c88e6771ac6751b5a1f25d;
path=/; domain=.jeff

So that makes me wonder if Date::Calc is installed correctly.
i.e. he module uses Date::Calc. also note that it installed fine.

I figured that the cookie problem could be a side effect of the 
firt problem I mentioned.

ahh yes my config file is here for anyone who is intrested

Any clue's..??

Thanks, 
Jeff

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Re: Apache::AuthCookieDBI BEGIN problems...??

2001-01-02 Thread Jeff Sheffield

 ahh yes my config file is here for anyone who is intrested
oopse 
http://www.jspot.org/jeff/temp/custom.after


Thanks, 
Jeff

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Unset PerlAuthenHandler (I wish)

2000-12-18 Thread Jeff Sheffield

Ok, essentially I want all but one directory on the
server to be password protected.
I want 1 directory to have the "I forgot my password"
functionality.

I am using Mason.
and setting SetHandler default-handler has undesired results.
i.e. mason files do not get parsed.
Essentially I want to do this.
Unset PerlAuthenHandler

here is a portion of my conf file.
--
AddType text/html .mhtm
FilesMatch ".*\.mhtm$"
SetHandler  perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason
/FilesMatch 

Location /websites/foo.net/htdocs/

AuthName "foo"
AuthType Basic

PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthDBI::authen
PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthDBI::authz

PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_data_source
dbi:mysql:database=foo_external_site;host=localhost;port=3306
PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_username  jsheffie
PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_password  fooo
# DBI-connect($data_source, $username, $password)

PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_pwd_table users
PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_uid_field user_id
PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_pwd_field password
PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_grp_field groups
#SELECT pwd_field FROM pwd_table WHERE uid_field=$user

require valid-user

ErrorDocument 401
/websites/foo.net/htdocs/passwd_forgoten/
/Location

Location /websites/foo.net/htdocs/passwd_forgoten/
   SetHandler default-handler
/Location
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Any ideas..??

Thanks, 
Jeff

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Re: HTMLEmbperl - manually setting %fdat during runtime...

1999-11-24 Thread Jeff Sheffield

I do the following

a href="http://172.17.30.38/Nactel/common/error.epl?application_id=[+  
$fdat{'application_id'} +]

then "error.epl will have the $fdat{'application_id'} = 'some value';


Jeff

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 09:41:08AM -0500, Erich L. Markert wrote:
 What I am trying to do is pass the value of the application_id onto the
 next form.  application_id is not know until the initial screen has been
 filled out properly and submitted.  After the error checking and
 application submission I then attempt to set $fdat{'application_id'} to
 the application id value so I can pass it along to the next form screen
 
 Here's the basic jist of what I want to do...
 
 [-
 error checking...
 
 $fdat{'application_id'} = 'some value';
 -]
 
 HTMLHEADTITLE/TITLE/HEADBODY
 [$ if( ( $new_applicant ) || ( $errors ) ) $]
   new application form...
 [$ else $]
   a href="http://172.17.30.38/Nactel/common/error.epl?[+  [%fdat]
 +]"Next/a
 [$ endif $]
 /BODY/HTML
 
 Examining the query string on the href shows all the other form data
 that was filled in and passed back to this app except that
 application_id manually set has no value.
 
 TIA
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