Re: Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-03 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:29:47PM -0500, jesse wrote: I...totally remember that. Perhaps it was Namp! (Linked from perl.apache.org) The first two google hits for Namp are North American Meat Processors and National Association of Mold Professionals. Which cheered me up, anyway. -- Bruce

Re: Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Woods
Bruce Richardson wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:29:47PM -0500, jesse wrote: I...totally remember that. Perhaps it was Namp! (Linked from perl.apache.org) The first two google hits for Namp are North American Meat Processors and National Association of Mold Professionals. Which cheered me

Re: Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-03 Thread Arun ragini
I got An error has been encountered in accessing this page -Arun On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Mike Woods m...@geofront.co.uk wrote: Bruce Richardson wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:29:47PM -0500, jesse wrote: I...totally remember that. Perhaps it was Namp! (Linked from

Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Armstrong
Someone at work has just asked me whether I recall a little mod_perl based media server where you * point it at a tree of media files * request media in various formats * it guesses the media type from the requested extension and transcodes to that format on the fly Does that ring bells

Re: Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-02 Thread jesse
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:23:51PM +, Andy Armstrong wrote: Someone at work has just asked me whether I recall a little mod_perl based media server where you * point it at a tree of media files * request media in various formats * it guesses the media type from the requested

Re: Dear Lazyweb: tiny mod_perl media server

2009-12-02 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 2 Dec 2009, at 17:29, jesse wrote: I...totally remember that. Perhaps it was Namp! (Linked from perl.apache.org) Ah - I reckon that's it. Thanks Jesse :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Fwd: mod_perl users survey

2008-09-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
In case any mod_perl users here aren't on the list or missed it... -- Forwarded message -- From: adam.prime Date: 2008/7/7 Subject: mod_perl users survey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the impromptu mod_perl BOF at YAPC::NA, Fred Moyer any myself hacked together a short mod_perl

Re: mod_gzip and mod_perl

2003-09-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A slightly different question to the one Simon just asked but does anyone use mod_gzip with mod_perl? I found that they interfered with each other so in the end I disabled mod_gzip on mod_perl generated pages. I haven't looked at this in about a year

[JOB] Perl / mod_perl / DBI developer (Linux). Based at centralLondon office. Required asap

2003-08-18 Thread Kirk Bowe
The application is an existing (working prototype) web-based campaign marketing tool which among other things processes both outbound and inbound email and text messages. Principal requirements: you will be need to become conversant with the existing Perl / mod_perl / DBI code and overall

Re: [JOB] Perl / mod_perl / DBI developer (Linux). Based at central London office. Required asap

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Cross
to become conversant with the existing Perl / mod_perl / DBI code and overall approach, bring some aspects of the coding (e.g. module structures, object method approaches) up to professional standard (it was and is a working prototype), add two new system features to quite precise requirements

Re: [JOB] Perl / mod_perl / DBI developer (Linux). Based at central London office. Required asap

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Cross
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [ something that really wasn't supposed to go to the list ] bugger! bugger! bugger! Sorry about that. Dave... -- Two slightly distorted guitars

Re: [OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-25 Thread Andy Wardley
Ben wrote: Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr Could it be that you're using an Apache/mod_perl that was built with one version of Perl, and you've later installed a new version of Perl? A

Re: [OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-25 Thread Ben
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:08:27AM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: Ben wrote: Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr Could it be that you're using an Apache/mod_perl that was built with one

Re: [OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-25 Thread Richard Clamp
think it gets perl right at all, or at least not the way I use it. That's why I typically install into /usr/local/perl*[0] and if I need it, I build mod_perl against the debian apache as a dso. [0] % ls -d /usr/local/perl* | wc -l 14 No, really. -- Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-25 Thread Ben
it doesn't get right IMNSHO are Apache and Perl. I don't think it gets perl right at all, or at least not the way I use it. That's why I typically install into /usr/local/perl*[0] and if I need it, I build mod_perl against the debian apache as a dso. Plan. I think I'll do

Re: [OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-25 Thread Ben
, apt / dpkg gets a lot of things right. Two of the things it doesn't get right IMNSHO are Apache and Perl. I don't think it gets perl right at all, or at least not the way I use it. That's why I typically install into /usr/local/perl*[0] and if I need it, I build mod_perl against

[OT] nasty mod_perl build problem

2003-07-24 Thread Ben
Hi, Anyone know anything about this load error from mod_perl: Cannot load /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so into server: /usr/local/apache/libexec/libperl.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Ipatchlevel_ptr I'm running apache 1.3.28 and mod_perl 1.28 and the build seems to happen fine, but it just

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-18 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Phil Lanch wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:30:03AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-18 Thread Phil Lanch
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: Doesn't seem to be. We've currently gone for a custom ErrorDocument 404 page, which does some processing and either 404s or redirects to the user page, having done a db lookup to check if it's a valid user. Which is a bit cracky,

mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
Hi, I would not be surprised if this problem has arisen due to me expecting more from Apache+mod_perl than it's capable of. The server is running Apache 1.3.mumble with mod_perl and mod_php. The site has been entirely built in PHP, by somebody else. They want the facility for http://foo.bar.com

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be something like /THISBITHERE. Then again, it's early here, so this could all be wrong. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
rather than a mod_perl thing - does trans seem like the appropriate stage for this to run at? Also, even if it's failing on this count, then none of the cases should probably work, and it should be catching the return DECLINED; final catch-all case, no? In which case, for non-/name type pages (eg

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 13:38 +0100 6/17/03, Joel Bernstein wrote: This one is really really bugging me - can anybody suggest an alternative way to do this redirection (I think it's too complicated a case for mod_rewrite)? I don't think so. I think this should do the trick: RewriteRule ^/david

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 13:38 +0100 6/17/03, Joel Bernstein wrote: This one is really really bugging me - can anybody suggest an alternative way to do this redirection (I think it's too complicated a case for mod_rewrite)? I don't think so. I

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 16:35 +0100 6/17/03, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: RewriteRule ^/david http://foo.bar.com/?page=publicprofile.phpname=david [R,L] or possibly even: RewriteRule ^/david /?page=publicprofile.phpname=david [R,L] I

Re: mod_perl PerlTransHandler weirdness

2003-06-17 Thread Phil Lanch
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:30:03AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: you don't want $r-pathinfo (which won't be set during trans). you want $r-uri, which will be something like /THISBITHERE. The only difference that makes is

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Mynott
On Saturday, Dec 14, 2002, at 00:17 Europe/London, Dirk Koopman wrote: Nice article, but doesn't really answer the question, which is: is FastCGI as scalable as mod_perl? I suspect the answer depends on what exactly you mean by scalable. Usually the answer to questions like this is FastCGI

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-15 Thread Robin Berjon
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:54:24PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Gzip and Apache::Clean are your friends. Gzip because it's actually net faster to compress the outgoing data to get rid of outgoing connections sooner? Or just because CPU is cheaper than bandwidth? Usually

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-14 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:17:27AM +, Dirk Koopman wrote: Let's not mess about, our victim (says he) needs 300 page views a second. This isn't a matter of opinion here, this is solid number territory. Well, quantified estimate territory. But that's not the important part - we have a

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-14 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: Having looked at some of the crap in HTML, it seems to be lots of font and colo(u)r tags, things more tersely done once in a CSS, especially if the spec is allowed to say we're aiming at $modern browser where modern is defined to mean CSS works. And

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-14 Thread Tom Hukins
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:04:28PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: Having looked at some of the crap in HTML, it seems to be lots of font and colo(u)r tags, things more tersely done once in a CSS, especially if the spec is allowed to say we're aiming

handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that do a substantial amount of full HTML page (i.e. non-banner-ad) traffic? There'll be some SQL and Template Toolkit business going on as well. I'm trying

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:58:20PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that do a substantial amount of full HTML page (i.e. non-banner-ad) traffic? There'll be some

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:58:20PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: The draft at the moment is wanting to support 2000 simultaneous users with approx 1m page views/*hour* (300/s ish) i.e. each of those users hitting about one page every six or seven seconds (by my calculations). Is this totally

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Steve Keay
Cluster of 12 dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to distribute the traffic in a sensible manner. Pair of big, fat Solaris servers running Oracle. Another pair of PCs to serve static content. If it dosen't go fast

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:58, Paul Makepeace wrote: Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that do a substantial amount of full HTML page (i.e. non-banner-ad) traffic? There'll be some SQL

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Robin Berjon
David Cantrell wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:58:20PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: The draft at the moment is wanting to support 2000 simultaneous users with approx 1m page views/*hour* (300/s ish) i.e. each of those users hitting about one page every six or seven seconds (by my

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread the hatter
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Steve Keay wrote: Cluster of 12 dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to distribute the traffic in a sensible manner. Pair of big, fat Solaris servers running Oracle. Another pair of PCs

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Dirk Koopman
dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to distribute the traffic in a sensible manner. Pair of big, fat Solaris servers running Oracle. Another pair of PCs to serve static content. Sounds the closest to a real

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Dirk Koopman
the implication of the word Oracle here? Dirk On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:55, the hatter wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Steve Keay wrote: Cluster of 12 dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to distribute

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Dirk Koopman
I am going to try again, this time (hopefully) I have read the question! On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:58, Paul Makepeace wrote: Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that do a substantial amount

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
Wow - thank you everyone (including essuu and Dirk who helped offlist)! Very reassuring hearing basically the same numbers and thoughts coming up. I had an idea of around 30/s and this seems to confirm it with bells, hints, tips on. FWIW, it's a collaborative project mgmt site (lots of dynamic,

mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Makepeace
OK, so this is part II I suppose. The perl webapp mantra seems to be use mod_perl! but IM[OE] it's a dog of an environment. Sure, lots of people love it, but I think that's mostly because they've suffered through trauma and it has developed that appeal of a conquered-but-has-it-got-something-up

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-13 Thread Robin Berjon
Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone else used FCGI recently? (I heard it was a bit shabby in yonder days.) In particular what situations is mod_perl a real win, and worth putting up with the pain? I haven't used it in a while, but back when I tried it you had no access to Apache's API. IOW

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread robin szemeti
On Friday 13 December 2002 15:58, Paul Makepeace wrote: Without going into lots of detail about what this is, since I'm trying to be generic, has anyone here been involved with mod_perl sites that do a substantial amount of full HTML page (i.e. non-banner-ad) traffic? There'll be some SQL

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Hickman
Steve Keay wrote: Cluster of 12 dual 1GHz pentium machines with 1 or 2Gb memory running mod_perl on *BSD or Linux. Layer7 load balancing switches to distribute the traffic in a sensible manner. Pair of big, fat Solaris servers running Oracle. Another pair of PCs to serve static content. You

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:54:24PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Gzip and Apache::Clean are your friends. Gzip because it's actually net faster to compress the outgoing data to get rid of outgoing connections sooner? Or just because CPU is cheaper than bandwidth? To keep IO at sane(r) levels, at

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:53, Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone else used FCGI recently? (I heard it was a bit shabby in yonder days.) In particular what situations is mod_perl a real win, and worth putting up with the pain? Did goole not find the paper wot I wrote for Emap? http

Re: handwavy mod_perl query

2002-12-13 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:54:24PM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: Gzip and Apache::Clean are your friends. Gzip because it's actually net faster to compress the outgoing data to get rid of outgoing connections sooner? Or just because CPU is cheaper

Re: mod_perl v. FastCGI

2002-12-13 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 22:33, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:53, Paul Makepeace wrote: Has anyone else used FCGI recently? (I heard it was a bit shabby in yonder days.) In particular what situations is mod_perl a real win, and worth putting up with the pain? Did goole

Re: [JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-02 Thread Adam Spiers
Alistair Francis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, As I mentioned to Dave Hodgkinson, and the london.pm list in the process (!), I have just taken over responsibility for the development team for the Olympics project. I had assumed that I had seen all of the CVs which were submitted via

RE: [JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin Gurney
] mod_perl engineer Alistair Francis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, As I mentioned to Dave Hodgkinson, and the london.pm list in the process (!), I have just taken over responsibility for the development team for the Olympics project. I had assumed that I had seen all of the CVs which

[JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-01 Thread Alistair Francis
Hi, Ticketmaster UK are looking for a mod_perl developer with the skills listed below. The position has previously been posted on jobs.perl.org but as of yet we have not found a suitable candidate. If you are interested in applying for the role, please reply to me with a copy of your CV (ascii

Re: [JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Alistair Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Ticketmaster UK are looking for a mod_perl developer with the skills listed below. The position has previously been posted on jobs.perl.org but as of yet we have not found a suitable candidate. Some replies to resumes that were directly

Re: [JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-01 Thread Alistair Francis
, Alistair On 1 Oct 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Alistair Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Ticketmaster UK are looking for a mod_perl developer with the skills listed below. The position has previously been posted on jobs.perl.org but as of yet we have not found a suitable candidate

Re: [JOB] mod_perl engineer

2002-10-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Alistair Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sincerely apologise for us not getting back to you. I have just joined the project and am taking responsibility for getting the team together. I don't have a copy of you CV (even though I have been through many of the CVs from jobserve) and, if

FWD: [Perl Jobs] OO Perl / mod_perl programmer for Web CMS (onsite), United Kingdom, Sheffield

2002-07-06 Thread Leon Brocard
A job! A job! - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Perl Jobs] OO Perl / mod_perl programmer for Web CMS (onsite), United Kingdom, Sheffield To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5 Jul 2002 15:56:05 - Online URL for this job

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? Smells like sports.com. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway

[jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
[Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? Leon - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Perl Jobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. -- Piers It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible.

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say perfect job? No. The

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Cooper
No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. That's what I was thinking. They're paying bad salary rates but for a contract-length period. Hell yes. £2033 after tax per month for three months. Some people would love to be earning that much lately (i.e. better than £0 per

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Matthew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What makes it worse is that some user on a slow connection on the other side of the world can effectively block the entire server while it 'slowly' sends and receives data. Which is why you never, _ever_ do that. you put a lite apache or squid on

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Tim Noll
Alex McLintock wrote: In theory this is ok - Apache and mod_perl should run ok on Windows 2000 shouldn't it? I run Apache 1.3.22 / mod_perl 1.26 on a 2000 box for development purposes only, and it works fine ... for a single client, that is ... Unfortunately when even ultra simple cgi scripts

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Jonathan Peterson
mod_perl doesn't run multi-threaded. You can only ever run one mod_perl process on windows which means all mod_perl calls have to be serialised. This really kills performance. Arg. Is perl threadsafe? I'm sure I read somewhere either that it wasn't or else that 90% of CPAN wasn't

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Sam Vilain
Alex, You best bet is probably FastCGI; you should then be able to set up a number of back-end FastCGI processes serving pages. Converting mod_perl CGI scripts to FastCGI is pretty easy, as long as you stayed away from the Apache API. See the man page for CGI::Fast for an example, or http

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-19 Thread Sam Vilain
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the way Apache is going, I'd have thought dealing with threading would be quite a priority for mod_perl, no? Look out for it in mod_perl 2.0, so I've heard. It will keep a pool of interpreter threads for creating dynamic pages. -- Sam

Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Alex McLintock
Hi folks, I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website. The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not negotiable :-( In theory this is ok - Apache and mod_perl should run ok on Windows 2000 shouldn't it? Unfortunately when even ultra simple

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Mark Hughes
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: Hi folks, I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website. The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not negotiable :-( In theory this is ok - Apache and mod_perl should run ok on Windows 2000

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Simon Wilcox
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website. The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not negotiable :-( In theory this is ok - Apache and mod_perl should run ok on Windows 2000 shouldn't

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:33:37PM +, Alex McLintock wrote: I've been contacted about a site which is an Apache/mod_perl website. The problem is that the live production server is Windows 2000 and not negotiable :-( Put linux inside a virtual machine (e.g. vmware) with port 80 exposed. I

Re: Apache mod_perl on Windows 2000

2002-03-18 Thread Matthew Robinson
Simon Wilcox wrote on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:12 AM Apache runs as a multi-threaded process under windows, not the *nix multi process model. mod_perl doesn't run multi-threaded. You can only ever run one mod_perl process on windows which means all mod_perl calls have to be serialised

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Tony Bowden wrote: I can understand that in terms of adding more skills, but adding length of experience is strange. What would someone with 6 years experience have over someone with 5? Or 4? Funnily enough I think experience counts for

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This employer has aimed high with 6 years experience, however I am sure they are not going to turn away someone with 4 or 5 years of really good experience. You just have no idea, do you? -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This employer has aimed high with 6 years experience, however I am sure they are not going to turn away someone with 4 or 5 years of really good experience. You just have no idea, do you? It's ok

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This employer has aimed high with 6 years experience, however I am sure they are not going to turn away someone with 4 or 5 years of really good

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Tony Bowden
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:41:01AM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Funnily enough I think experience counts for a lot in computer jobs. It depends on what that experience is. And I'm not convinced that after a couple of years, just having experience of a certain thing is that relevant. To pick

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:53:57PM +, Tony Bowden wrote: Then ask for for experience in those things specifically. Not for something as bland as years experience in the industry. Because it would be quite truthful to say that you had N years experience whilst conveniently editing the fact

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Jon Nangle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave == Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave You said: I am sure they are not going to turn away someone with 4 or 5 years of really good experience. Dave The FACT is that they have, so you are patently wrong.

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What Greg said! Read what he wrote...he said they're not going to turn someone down with the experience. They have, at _least_ twice, maybe more. if i wanted to express my opinion more formally, i might of stated it along the lines of ...

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-07 Thread Jon Nangle
Greg == Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg more anecdotally, you could have 7 years of excellent experience Greg and get turned down because you decided to masturbate during the Greg interview - i know this has lost me a few interviews over the Greg years ;-) Exactly

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:17:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: The position is likely to remain unfilled (does anyone know how long its been advertised?) I first heard about it last June, though that was in a slightly different form. Roger

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:29:39PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: People were advertising for two years of Java experience in 1995 as well ... It was showing up on CVs, too. Though my personal favourite was the company that mistyped its ad, so that it ended up asking for COBOC programmers. Sure

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-05 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:29:39PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote: People were advertising for two years of Java experience in 1995 as well ... It was showing up on CVs, too. Though my personal favourite was the company that mistyped its ad, so

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Roger Burton West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: that it ended up asking for COBOC programmers. Sure enough, a goodly percentage of the CVs offered many years' experience at COBOC... I once had an argument with someone claiming they were being taught C+ at Uni (well it was actually a jumped up

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-05 Thread Tony Bowden
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:38:43AM +, Steve Campbell wrote: 6 or more years in the internet industry?? Definitely not impossible, as I've been beneficially employed by the Internet since '95, but it's just quite am impressive thing to require... You guys confusing the WWW for

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Tony Bowden
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:00:35AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Role: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / MOD_PERL / LINUX / MYSQL Skills required: ... 6+ years experience as a software developer in the internet industry. 6 or more years in the internet industry?? Tony

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Struan Donald
* at 04/01 12:55 + Tony Bowden said: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:00:35AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Role: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / MOD_PERL / LINUX / MYSQL Skills required: ... 6+ years experience as a software developer in the internet industry. 6 or more years in the internet

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ivor == Ivor Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivor Skills required: Degree with 6+ years experience as a software developer Ivor in the internet industry. At least 4 years must be with Linux, Apache, Ivor Perl (must be primarily mod_perl), MySql, and XML. 4 years with mod_perl and XML

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * at 04/01 12:55 + Tony Bowden said: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:00:35AM -0500, Andy Williams wrote: Role: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / MOD_PERL / LINUX / MYSQL Skills required: ... 6+ years experience as a software developer in the internet

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Ivor == Ivor Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivor Skills required: Degree with 6+ years experience as a software developer Ivor in the internet industry. At least 4 years must be with Linux, Apache, Ivor Perl (must be primarily mod_perl

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Smith
On 4 Jan 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Ivor Skills required: Degree with 6+ years experience as a software developer Ivor in the internet industry. At least 4 years must be with Linux, Apache, Ivor Perl (must be primarily mod_perl), MySql

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Sharpe
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ivor == Ivor Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivor Skills required: Degree with 6+ years experience as a software developer Ivor in the internet industry. At least 4 years must be with Linux, Apache, Ivor Perl (must be primarily mod_perl), MySql, and XML

RE: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Ivor Williams
Andy williams wrote: I just spoke to the agent, and he claims that the company are being really insistent on the experience I don't think they are paying too much either... Oh and his email address appears to be wrong :) A case of www.avatingpork.com methinks Ivor.

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's quite a few people hereabouts who have interviewed for this one and given the spread and style of us all NONE got an offer, I don't think the person exists who would get the job. tongue_in_cheek,_and_lots_of_smileys Well, I haven't

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's quite a few people hereabouts who have interviewed for this one and given the spread and style of us all NONE got an offer, I don't think the person exists who would get the job.

Re: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
, Apache, Ivor Perl (must be primarily mod_perl), MySql, and XML. 4 years with mod_perl and XML Not even Doug MacEachern or Tim Bray would qualify! Only the XML bit though? I dug through email archives a couple of weeks back (mainly to find out *when* my first message to p5p

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Steve Mynott
Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:10:28PM +, Struan Donald wrote: 6 or more years in the internet industry?? well amazon started hiring in '94 so it's certainly possible. improbable but not impossible :) Definitely not impossible, as I've been

Re: JOB: Mod_perl

2002-01-04 Thread Tony Bowden
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:17:57PM +, Steve Mynott wrote: I really can't see any reason at all why it would be a requirement. My guess is the potential employer was stung by a poor previous employee who promised much and delivered little and they reacted by overspecing the requirements

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