Re: How to uninstall mod_perl?

2000-02-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Brian Tully wrote: > > Please excuse my naivete but how do I uninstall mod_perl? Do i have to > recompile Apache? Yes. If you used DSO you can just modify the httpd.conf, otherwise you need to recompile Apache. -jwb

Re: ARGV in exec subprocesses

2000-02-10 Thread Edwin Pratomo
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Edwin Pratomo wrote: > Stas, the example you supplied in the miniguide > (http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_or_Executing_Subprocesse) > doesn't work. > It's because the scalar returned by FreezeThaw::thaw contains shell escape

How to uninstall mod_perl?

2000-02-10 Thread Brian Tully
Please excuse my naivete but how do I uninstall mod_perl? Do i have to recompile Apache?

ARGV in exec subprocesses

2000-02-10 Thread Edwin Pratomo
Stas, the example you supplied in the miniguide (http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_or_Executing_Subprocesse) doesn't work. It's because the scalar returned by FreezeThaw::thaw contains shell escape chars, like: [|;] so system("program.pl $params") obviously will break. If th

RE: Embedded Perl XML Extensions ...

2000-02-10 Thread Gerald Richter
Joshua, > > I have been thinking about some XML style extensions for > Apache::ASP, and know that you are looking at the same thing > with Embperl, and was hoping that we could sync up on the > APi, so there might be a common mindset for a developer when > using our extensions, even if the underl

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI

2000-02-10 Thread Joshua Chamas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I reinstalled mod_perl and apache but I still get the same error > when I try to use Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI at the same time as seen in > the example. Error message is > > [Thu Feb 10 22:33:42 2000] [error] [asp] [25663] [error] syntax error at > (eval 50) line

ANNOUNCE: Apache::AuthCookie 2.001

2000-02-10 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, The URL http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~ken/modules/archive/Apache-AuthCookie-2.001.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/KWILLIAMS/Apache-AuthCookie-2.001.tar.gz size: 14968 bytes md5: 252ea4ec539f0c303ae552a4e25588d5 - The login forms may now use the POST method inste

RE: How do I send a 404 from Embperl?

2000-02-10 Thread Gerald Richter
> > I am attempting to send a 404 not found message from an Embperl > script. Here > is the code I am trying to use in its simplest form. This is > test.html. Note > that it contains no HTML. > > [- > $req_rec->status('404'); > $req_rec->header_out('Content-Length' => undef); > exit; > -] >

Re: $r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Ed Loehr
Greg Stark wrote: > > Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Loehr) wrote: > > > >Any ideas on why would this output statement takes 15-20 seconds to > > > >send a 120kb page to a browser on the same host? > > > > > > > >$| = 1; # Don't buffer anything...send it

Re: What's the benefits of using XML ?

2000-02-10 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
At 07:00 PM 2/10/00 -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: > [ ... interesting XML application analysis deleted ... ] > >Looks I came up with some reasons after all. So go ahead and use it if >you see a fit. Just don't believe anything that a person with a product >to sell tells you about XML. Or anyth

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ken Williams wrote: > Yeah, I just saw the message. Since I tend not to use CPAN.pm (I like to > tinker around with stuff when I download/install) I've been ignorant of its > procedures. The main thing to know is that it won't install if the tests fail, unless you force it.

Re: What's the benefits of using XML ?

2000-02-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Vlad Safronov wrote: > What's the benefits of using XML in building web site with dynamic > content? > (web site is a front end to database) This is off-topic for this list, but I can't resist... What's the benefit of using XML? You get to buy expensive application servers!

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread Ken Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perrin Harkins) wrote: >On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Okay, I installed mod_perl, Apache::ASP and required modules like >> Apache::Filter, and Apache::SSI. (Note, some of the Apache:: modules will >> not isntall via CPAN.pm, they look for HTTP in some messed

RE: mod_perl with authen::Smb

2000-02-10 Thread Clifford Lang
>From the Apache::AuthenSmb docs ## NAME Apache::AuthenSMB - mod_perl NT Authentication module SYNOPSIS # This is the standard authentication stuff AuthName "Foo Bar Authentication" AuthType Basic

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay, I installed mod_perl, Apache::ASP and required modules like > Apache::Filter, and Apache::SSI. (Note, some of the Apache:: modules will > not isntall via CPAN.pm, they look for HTTP in some messed up directory > where it oviously doesn't exist

Re: [HTML::Embperl] It's late and I'm getting a very odd error

2000-02-10 Thread Joshua Chamas
Jason Bodnar wrote: > > I'm losing it. I've written applications like this countless times but I'm > doing something wrong. > > I've got a module called Apache::StoreFront. Right now it consists of: > > package Apache::StoreFront; > > 1; > > There's more to it but I've cut it out to simplify

$r->content_type clobbering outgoing headers

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Ross
Hi! I have an access handler that uses $r->headers_out->add to add a set-cookie header: $r->headers_out->add("Set-cookie"=>$sesc); If i try to access this in my ContentHandler, actually HTML::Mason, i find a strange problem: Calling $r->content_type wipes out the header! >From the han

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Leslie Mikesell
According to Matt Sergeant: > >This would be cool. However, in at least a few cases, the PHP docs leave > > something to be desired. I remember looking up the Oracle connect calls for > > PHP online once (for 3.0), and having people hold a debate about how a > > function really worked, because

Re: [HTML::Embperl] It's late and I'm getting a very odd error

2000-02-10 Thread Cliff Rayman
try: [! use Apache::StoreFront; !] notice the semicolon. gerald has written about this before so you can find more details in the archives. cliff rayman genwax.com Jason Bodnar wrote: > I'm losing it. I've written applications like this countless times but I'm > doing something wrong. > > I've

Re: exit signal Alarm Clock (14)

2000-02-10 Thread Bill Moseley
Still still trying to figure this out: I get about 10 or 20 exit signal Alarm Clock (14) messages a day -- out of 15,000+ requests. Not very many. I log the PID of my mod_perl script each request, and for each 'exit signal Alarm Clock (14)' there seems to be a mod_perl request about 5 minutes a

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Bill
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > >This would be cool. However, in at least a few cases, the PHP docs leave > > something to be desired. I remember looking up the Oracle connect calls for > > PHP online once (for 3.0), and having people hold a debate about how a > > function really worked, becaus

[HTML::Embperl] It's late and I'm getting a very odd error

2000-02-10 Thread Jason Bodnar
I'm losing it. I've written applications like this countless times but I'm doing something wrong. I've got a module called Apache::StoreFront. Right now it consists of: package Apache::StoreFront; 1; There's more to it but I've cut it out to simplify things. It's in /$SERVER_ROOT/lib/perl/Apac

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread ericb
No the ssi_filter.ssi example does not work. And I tried preloading Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI but not Apache::Filter I downloaded the l I'm reinstalling right now, so I'll let you know. Thanks Enry On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Here is my state

Re: Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread Joshua Chamas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here is my statement: > > > SetHandler perl-script > PerlHandler Apache::ASP Apache::SSI > PerlSetVar NoCache 1 > PerlSetVar Global /tmp/ > PerlSetVar Filter On > PerlSetVar Dynamic Includes 0 > PerlSetVar Stat

Re: mod_perl (preferably Embperl) based shopping cart?

2000-02-10 Thread Edward Moon
Check out . I don't recall if they use mod_perl or Embperl, but I do know that they use Perl (gee is that vague enough :). On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jason Bodnar wrote: > A while ago somebody posted that they were working on an open source shopping > cart using mod_perl. D

mod_perl with authen::Smb

2000-02-10 Thread Sambit Nanda
Hi, i have installed apache_1.3.11 with openssl-0.9.4 and mod_per and mod_ssl and every thing is working fine i need to user Authen::Smb for Nt user authentication I installed Authen:Smb using cpan> install Apache::AuthenSmb and Install Authen::Smb and both the product got installed wi

mod_perl with authen::Smb

2000-02-10 Thread Sambit Nanda
Hi, i have installed apache_1.3.11 with openssl-0.9.4 and mod_per and mod_ssl and every thing is working fine i need to user Authen::Smb for Nt user authentication I installed Authen:Smb using cpan> install Apache::AuthenSmb and Install Authen::Smb and both the product got installed wi

Re: $r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Ken Williams
What context is this in? Are you using anything like Embperl, Mason, etc. that might buffer the entire output in order to find the content-length? Any difference if you change it to print() instead of $r->print(), or if you break it into lines and print each line? Actually, I bet that last tric

RE: How can I share mod_perl config info with shell perl processe s?

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
> I like the idea of using LWP to get config info, but what if the server is > down? What? Your server can be found in down state? :) > I guess you could do a httpd -X, or is there another way? There are many ways to do that. See the watchdog section in the guide... > > Thanks, Cliff > > --

How do I send a 404 from Embperl?

2000-02-10 Thread Alan Gutierrez
I am attempting to send a 404 not found message from an Embperl script. Here is the code I am trying to use in its simplest form. This is test.html. Note that it contains no HTML. [- $req_rec->status('404'); $req_rec->header_out('Content-Length' => undef); exit; -] Normally, a 404 looks fr

Re: $r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Greg Stark
Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Loehr) wrote: > > >Any ideas on why would this output statement takes 15-20 seconds to > > >send a 120kb page to a browser on the same host? > > > > > >$| = 1; # Don't buffer anything...send it asap... > > >$r->print( $data

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Bill
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Something I'd really love to see, is documentation to the extent that the > php site has docs. And thier docs are user-annotatable, which is a really > cool feature. > > -- > This would be cool. However, in at least a few cases, the PHP docs leave something to be d

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Bill wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > Something I'd really love to see, is documentation to the extent that the > > php site has docs. And thier docs are user-annotatable, which is a really > > cool feature. > > > > -- > > > >This would be cool. However, in at lea

Re: $r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Ken Williams
Are you sure it's waiting? You might try debug timestamps before & after the $r->print(). You might also be interested in the send_fd() method if the data are in a file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Loehr) wrote: >Any ideas on why would this output statement takes 15-20 seconds to >send a 120kb page t

Re: $r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Ed Loehr
Ken Williams wrote: > > Are you sure it's waiting? You might try debug timestamps before & after the > $r->print(). You might also be interested in the send_fd() method if the data > are in a file. Fairly certain it's waiting there. I cut my debug timestamps out for ease on your eyes in my ea

Re: $r->content_type clobbering outgoing headers

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Ross
hi all! the problem is me. the handler works fine with a full, existing path. the problem occurs when i think that a request for a directory is just like a request for a file, which is isn't. basically, i need to handle setting cookies with a redirect, then this problem along with a related

Apache::ASP and Apache::SSI problems

2000-02-10 Thread ericb
Okay, I installed mod_perl, Apache::ASP and required modules like Apache::Filter, and Apache::SSI. (Note, some of the Apache:: modules will not isntall via CPAN.pm, they look for HTTP in some messed up directory where it oviously doesn't exist, you have to run make install manually or force the

??? Proxy request order

2000-02-10 Thread Clifford Lang
I have a production UltraSparc-1 server running Solaris 2.5.1, Apache-1.3.9, mod_perl-1.21, MySql, (168mhz, 512MB ram). I am at the edge of memory usage, and occasionally even swap (bad I know). I don't have a development box so I want to try something with out breaking whats working already. I

PerlDispatchHandler for error handling?

2000-02-10 Thread David Harris
Hey, Does anybody know how to use PerlDispatchHandler to somehow trap errors in perl? I think I remember somebody mentioning that... I've been looking around and I can't find too much of any documentation about what PerlDispatchHandler actually does. (Already checked the archives and www.modperl.

$r->print delay?

2000-02-10 Thread Ed Loehr
Any ideas on why would this output statement takes 15-20 seconds to send a 120kb page to a browser on the same host? sub send_it { my ($r, $data) = @_; $| = 1; # Don't buffer anything...send it asap... $r->print( $data ); } modperl 1.21, apache/modssl 1.3.9-2.4.9...lightly l

Re: Site unique MAC secret

2000-02-10 Thread Bill Jones
Won't work... Matt has control over his system - but not mine -- see? -Sneex- :] Bill Jones * Systems Programmer * http://www.fccj.org/cgi/mail?sneex ('> Running -

Re: ??? Proxy request order

2000-02-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "CL" == Clifford Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CL> Now - to my real question: CL> Is this order big-server -> little-server going to benifit me much? Would CL> just a simple ReWrite proxy rule do it? I know the normal order would be CL> little -> big, but I think thats a bit risky at

mod_perl (preferably Embperl) based shopping cart?

2000-02-10 Thread Jason Bodnar
A while ago somebody posted that they were working on an open source shopping cart using mod_perl. Did anything come of that? I'm wroking with minivend right now and, well, it's not very nice. What would be nice is to have a perl Minivend API (since it's so full-featured) so you could create you

Re: $r->content_type clobbering outgoing headers

2000-02-10 Thread Aaron Ross
hi Tim! tried it. didn't work. what difference were you thinking that might make? maybe there is another way to achieve it. Aaron > Try retrieving the content type and then working on that scalar. > > my $ct = $r->content_type; > return -1 if ((-e $r->finfo) && $ct && ($ct !~ m|^text/|i));

Re: Perl and SQL, which is the most scalable SQL server to use?

2000-02-10 Thread Ken Y. Clark
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Ryan, Aaron wrote: > Hi, > > We have designed a web site creator that uses > Perl and DBI to work with MySQL. The integration > between the two was great, but recently our website has > been over run with users and our poor MySQL database is showing > some major slow downs.

Re: Perl and SQL, which is the most scalable SQL server to use?

2000-02-10 Thread Pascal Eeftinck
At 13:02 10-2-00 +0200, Stas Bekman wrote: >On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote: > >> According to Ryan, Aaron: >> >> > We found that we are quicking using up the max connections to the MySQL >> > database >> > and when we raise the max connection, the performance gets worse. What was >>

Re: Apache::DBI woes

2000-02-10 Thread Greg Cope
From: "Adam Cassar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 09 February 2000 05:50 Subject: Apache::DBI woes : Hello All, : : I have been having numerous problems with Apache::DBI, I have tried using : PerlRequire startup.pl : : with startup.pl containing : use Apache::DBI; : : and al

RE: How can I share mod_perl config info with shell perl processes?

2000-02-10 Thread Clifford Lang
I like the idea of using LWP to get config info, but what if the server is down? I guess you could do a httpd -X, or is there another way? Thanks, Cliff -Original Message- From: Stas Bekman To: Clifford Lang Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/10/00 5:59 AM Subject: Re: How can I share mod_p

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: > > >text > > - this is much easier obviously, however I've often heard people say > > they thought text-navigation was easier with the navbar at the top > > and bottom of the page. I'd like to have opinions on this, but > > please le

Re: Problems with configuration

2000-02-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there. On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, al wrote: > I'm having the following problems: > i) Occasionally, for not reason at all, I get 'The Document > contained no data, try again later' errors on Netscape, and pressing > reload usually gets rid of this. Also, nothing is logged in the > error logs

Re: Commercial app demo

2000-02-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote: > There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily, > but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract > some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are > concerned, a workaround consists in

Re: Perl and SQL, which is the most scalable SQL server to use?

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote: > According to Ryan, Aaron: > > > We found that we are quicking using up the max connections to the MySQL > > database > > and when we raise the max connection, the performance gets worse. What was > > MySQL designed > > to handle, should it be able t

Re: How can I share mod_perl config info with shell perl processes?

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
> I have data I need access to via WEB or filesystem. or more correctly with > email. Since the data lives in Web server territory, my Apache/mod_perl > configuration files know where everything is - > > What I think I would like to do, is when the mail process starts up, I'd > like to reach ins

Fw: failure notice

2000-02-10 Thread Jens-Uwe Walther
>Patrick, > >if you use Solaris too then have a look at "man ld.so.1" which explains all >possible run time linker environment variables using shared libraries stuff > >NAME > ld.so.1 - runtime linker for dynamic objects > >SYNOPSIS > /usr/lib/ld.so.1 > >... > > > LD_PRELOAD >

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Robin Berjon
At 11:05 10/02/2000 +0200, Stas Bekman wrote: >Please decide whether you want to have the discussion at the mod_perl list >or its sister advocacy list. I've added the advocacy list to CC, so at >least the person who will search the advocacy archive in the future will >find all the info about this

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
Something I'd really love to see, is documentation to the extent that the php site has docs. And thier docs are user-annotatable, which is a really cool feature. -- Details: FastNet Software Ltd - XML, Perl, Databases. Tagline: High Performance Web Solutions Web Sites: http://come.to/fastnet h

Re: Commercial app demo

2000-02-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote: > There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily, > but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract > some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are > concerned, a workaround consists in trivially re

Re: PerlHandler precedence?

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
> Here's the problem. I have a number of cgi scripts I want to run > under PerlRun (some under Registry, but not all of them are cleaned up > yet), and also run a new Mason interface we've put together. But with > the config below, only HTML::Mason processes them. My understanding > of SetHandl

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
Here comes the followup according to the TomC's protocol :) On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Robin Berjon wrote: > Hello fellow mod_perlians, > > I know I had promised to send this in by the end of December / early > January, I am really late and sorry. I was caught in France by the french > army for being

Re: [SITE] possible structure suggestion

2000-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
Please decide whether you want to have the discussion at the mod_perl list or its sister advocacy list. I've added the advocacy list to CC, so at least the person who will search the advocacy archive in the future will find all the info about this important issue. Therefore I quote it in all comp

What's the benefits of using XML ?

2000-02-10 Thread Vlad Safronov
What's the benefits of using XML in building web site with dynamic content? (web site is a front end to database) -- Best regards, ** Vlad A. Safronov [EMAIL PROTECTED]