Re: connecting apache to mysql

2001-01-12 Thread David Hodgkinson
Al Abdullaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry guys for irrelevant question, but where can I find guide how to connect apache server to mysql database? thanks a lot. Depends what you want to do. Authentication, or something more complex? -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interestingly, I recall sitting in on one of Bruce's courses at Web98 (We were teaching CGI/Perl for a day and he was teaching Intensive Java the day before)... Bruce said he has tried to learn Perl but just couldn't wrap his head around it. If

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
kyle dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 05:52, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: 6. Engineering The Perl community is made up of a truly eclectic group of people, which is an amazing strength. However, it's also an amazing weakness: I get the impression that very few

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: "Gunther" == Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gunther This is exactly why someone experienced in training (ie Gunther Randal/StoneHenge) would hopefully be the ones to take the Gunther torch on this. If there's anyone I would trust

Re: enterprise mod_perl architectures

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Gerald Richter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Is there anyone who'd like to volunteer virtual space to host this? e.g. ftp, web, creating a mailing list, etc. I can do this, but I guess it also wouldn't be a problem to host this on perl.apache.org This is, IMHO, a mod_perl advocacy

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I haven't looked at AO or AxKit, but if I can untar either one of them and just get to work, that will rule. You can't, but thats because I believe in the CPAN model - use pre-written components. I

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
barries [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you could release a source distro of same with a big, red "make" button on it that would allow folks on FreeBSD, debian, wherever to take a stab at it too, that would be icing on the cake. Me too ;-) I mean, what would the damage of a full-on,

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but I don't seem to make other interested. I don't know why. Folks are too busy I guess. It's blogger syndrome. You need to do it in parallel with the development. The only reason my mod_perl/FastCGI comparison got written was because those nice

Re: mod_perl with threaded Apache (eg Apache2)

2000-12-05 Thread David Hodgkinson
"John K. Sterling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is doug macEachern's bag - those who were at apachecon in london saw the progress he had made at that point - its pretty sweet. check the archives for summaries of his presentation in late october. Never mind the progress he made _during_

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread David Hodgkinson
kevin montuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: additionally, i think that some consideration should be given to how mod_perl is packaged. although it's well documented (and generally quite simple) there are three kits that need to be compiled (apache, perl, mod_perl)

Re: Does mod_perl have anything to do with KeepAlive?

2000-11-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Larry Leszczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All - I'm hoping for some enlightenment about how KeepAlive is implemented in Apache and whether KeepAlive even comes into play when front-end and back-end mod_perl servers communicate with each other via HTTP.

Re: implementing server affinity

2000-11-22 Thread David Hodgkinson
Chris Nokleberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, the front-end proxy servers don't have mod_perl, so the TransHandler would have to be written in C (?). Does anyone know of any existing code that does this sort of thing? Or simply well-written C TransHandlers that I could work off of? Is

Re: [OT] mod_perl evangelism

2000-11-21 Thread David Hodgkinson
David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've always thought that php had better "web support" in terms of "How to do this in php" or tutorials. mod_perl's lack of similar resources is not a bad thing. OK, the London Pe

Re: mod_perl for NT when using another Web server other than Apache.

2000-11-21 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Gurumustuk Singh Khalsa wrote: Hi there... I was just wondering if any of you know of a way to use mod_perl on NT using another webserver other than Apache. I am running the Lotus Domino web server and currently have the

Re: [OT] mod_perl evangelism

2000-11-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Something on this will happen at the London.pm meeting tomorrow... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ApacheCon USA 2001: Call For Papers

2000-11-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ralf is always talking about SSL stuff, so if you want to do it, why don't you just contact him and sync with him. It's not mod_perl but many of us are using it. So it'd probably be questionable for TPC , but perfect for ApacheCon. Is there a way of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ApacheCon USA 2001: Call For Papers

2000-11-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: "David" == David Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Is there a way of doing mod_rewrite maps in perl? Just write a good PerlTransHandler. I do that all the time. I tossed mod_rewrite long ago. Arcane syntax, ma

Replacing mod_prewrite with a PerlTransHandler Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ApacheCon USA 2001: Call For Papers

2000-11-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps that would make for a good talk ;) mod_rewrite recovery? Ok seriously then, we're proposing replacing a lite apache and mod_rewrite with a slightly heavier, but presumably highly shared mod_perled apache at the front end. Measurements anyone?

Re: [RFC] Apache::Expires

2000-11-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all... I was wondering if anyone has some experience with expire headers for dynamic documents - kinda like mod_expires but for dynamic stuff. Andy Wardley has already clued me in, in two entirely different ways, on doing something very similar

[OT] mod_perl evangelism

2000-11-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
Chaps, In the last couple of days and on several mailing lists (MySQL for one), I've seen people pointed to www.phpbuilder.org for answers. Where the hell's the mod_perl version?! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: [OT] mod_perl evangelism

2000-11-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
Greg Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've always thought that php had better "web support" in terms of "How to do this in php" or tutorials. mod_perl's lack of similar resources is not a bad thing. OK, the London Perlmongers are having a technical session on Thursday. I'll see who I can

Re: Templates - what choose ?

2000-11-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
"G.W. Haywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, BeerBong wrote: I think about implementaion of this project with Perl Apache handlers and template system. There are HTML::Template, HTML::DynamicTemplate and I saw others. There was an extensive discussion of

Re: Trying to use startup.pl to reduce the size of httpd child proces ses....

2000-11-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I am trying to reduce the size of my child httpd processes. We are using modperl, Embperl, DBI and DBD:Oracle. Our current httpd processes quickly grow to 22M or so after a database connection. I read in the modperl docs that modules can be

Re: dynamic vs. mostly static data

2000-11-08 Thread David Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote: Only if you don't already have a proxy front-end. Most large sites will need one anyway. After playing around for a while with mod_proxy on a second server, I'm not so convinced; we have

Re: database access

2000-11-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Jason Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I can access oracle database from the main Apache process, but not from any child processes. I am fairly new to this subject, can someone give me some advice? What error are you getting? You looked in the error logs? What do you mean by "main"

Re: database access

2000-11-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Jason Liu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In general, how should database connections be handled between parent and child processes? Can you establish database connections from within a handler? Absolutely. And using Abache::DBI caches the connection handle. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: dynamic vs. mostly static data

2000-11-06 Thread David Hodgkinson
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is TT the something that will let me do this without too much headache? Yes. Look at PRE_PROCESS and POST_PROCESS in the man page. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway

Re: HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

2000-11-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: egads, don't do it... Web servers are well developed for this kind of thing, and modern filesystems (e.g. ext2fs) will buffer the ads in RAM anyway if you have enough. You're not likely to get any speed increase doing it this way. If you're that

Re: DBI

2000-11-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Tamas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I looking in the right place? I just don't seem to be able to find the right docs in Perldoc or Apache or perl.apache.org. Only if your issue is mod_perl related... ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org

Re: HTTP Mod_Perl mini-server

2000-11-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3 Nov 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Dare I add that Squid has plenty of low-latency cacheing features you could use? In my tests, a modern version of mod_proxy (serving from cache) was faster than Squid on Linux. Really? Cool. What about

Re: mod_perl on specific scripts

2000-11-01 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matthew Byng-Maddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 31 Oct 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Did I just condemn you to learning mod_rewrite? Ooops :-) You do, of course, know about all the latest patches for this, due to potential security problems ...moving to Apache 1.3.14, right

Re: Apache::SSI problem

2000-11-01 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stanislav Grozev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *snip* the problem is, when I fetch the file, the above remains intact, ie. the SSI doesn't process it? I've tried also with plain Apache::SSI directives (ie. without subclassing it) and it still doesn't work.;-( any suggestions? (this setup

Re: how to really bang on a script?

2000-10-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
"G.W. Haywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Christopher L. Everett wrote: OK, I confess: I've written (probably yet another) mod_perl banner exchange. I need to know that when we serve 100K banners to 40K

Re: mod_perl on specific scripts

2000-10-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
Paonia Ezrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a number of scripts in places other then /perl that I want to use mod_perl for. However, I can't turn it on for all scripts in a specific directory or even a certain extension. Is there any way to do this or am I going to need to do a redirect

Re: Connection Pooling / TP Monitor

2000-10-29 Thread David Hodgkinson
Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am also concerned that the original question brings up the notion of failover. mod_backhand is not a failover solution. Backhand does have some facilities to do some failover (eg ByAge weeding) but it's not failover in the traditional sense.

UK based mod_perl/Apache/MySQL type available

2000-10-27 Thread David Hodgkinson
Chaps, I'm looking for a couple of weeks good hard heavy hacking in the above skills areas. Short term CTO work (which anyone using the above probably doesn't need) is good too. Work done, happy customer references and rates supplied on demand. Where I add value the most IMHO, is in the

Re: [OT]logging Apache processes w/rotatelogs

2000-10-17 Thread David Hodgkinson
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They don't seem to hurt the load averages nor the memory, but I wonder if there might be any problem running so many of them, like, erm, hitting a max-processes count? Yes. There are plenty of counter examples floating around. Mostly involving

Re: Pointer to a CGI.pm list

2000-10-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Roderick A. Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again sorry to ask here. Oh go on, just this once. As long as it doesn't degnerate into the canonical template discussion... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Awards and stuff

2000-10-02 Thread David Hodgkinson
I read recently that webtechniques has an award pending for tools, and the Zope list just mentioned: http://www.linux-community.de/News/story?storyid=349 Any mod_perl evangelists interested? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The

Re: Zope functionality under mod_perl

2000-09-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: "Philip Molter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: Zope functionality under mod_perl I've looked at AxKit, and I'm not quite sure if it's exactly what

Re: One httpd.conf for both apache heavy and apache-light [IfModule]

2000-09-30 Thread David Hodgkinson
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm reading the mod_rewrite guide right now and my head *is* spinning. Remind me to write up my experiences. I did this a couple of weeks ago on a five-machine setup and it's worth documenting for peer review... (Like to see if I missed

Re: [OT] advice needed.

2000-09-29 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Vladislav Safronov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I know it's very OT, but don't kick me I just need advice. I am going to work in a Web Company to write some mod_perl apps. They gave me a contract (I think the terrible one) which contains paragraph (among the others) that signs the

Re: perl initialization per virtual host... is it possible

2000-09-14 Thread David Hodgkinson
"William Deegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ged, I think you may have misunderstood. I meant a different startup per virtual host, not per child process. Is that possible? If you're going to do that, say, to stop virtual servers interfering with each other, consider having COMPLETELY

Re: Question

2000-09-12 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Eric Cholet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well then we're a long shot away, and so are many French natives :) Nah, we won't be that demanding, lest we scare him away from the, erm, "most beautiful city in the world". What? Bath? Dave // Found communication in Paris much improved with a

Re: [OT] mod_rewrite hang

2000-09-05 Thread David Hodgkinson
Jonathan Leto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the people who tried to help, but it doesn't seem to be a DNS timeout. When using the following code, it still hangs: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; while(){ print "$_\n"; } strace the server under 'httpd -X' --

Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-09-04 Thread David Hodgkinson
brian moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i used to believe this argument. i was all up on the xslt bandwagon. and then i took the question to our html dept. and they unanimously preferred perl. Looking for better paid jobs, I'd guess... ;-) -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: [OT] Language Question...

2000-09-01 Thread David Hodgkinson
David Hajoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to learn about the programming of mod_perl. While I am an ok perl programmer, I know very little of c code. Can somebody suggest a (or several) book that I can start to learn c from? Why do you need C if you've got perl? -- Dave

Re: [OT] Language Question...

2000-09-01 Thread David Hodgkinson
David Hajoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, if you must know, mod perl was programmed in c I knew this. So? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL,

Re: [OT] Language Question...

2000-09-01 Thread David Hodgkinson
David Hajoglou [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to be able to read the internals of mod_perl (the module that plugs into apache). I would like to understand how it works with apache and to do this I need c coding skills. So, regardless of my reason for wanting to learn c (though it

Re: SIGTERM/SIGKILL at the stop/restart events

2000-08-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *snip* P.S. If you are not familiar with the great "Jesus Christ Super Star" musical it's a time to watch it. The above lyrics were copied from: http://user.chollian.net/~asalabia/musical/jcsly.htm. And of course, Ian Gillan is on the "original cast"

Re: [OT] DNS question (slightly mod_perl related...)

2000-08-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to tell BIND to catch *.domain.com and answer the same ip? Plan A: Generate the zone files from the database. Plan B: Use the beta of Bind 9 which, I believe, has database bindings promised. I've hacked around with something

Re: [OT] DNS question (slightly mod_perl related...)

2000-08-31 Thread David Hodgkinson
Jim Winstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Aug 31, David Hodgkinson wrote: martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to tell BIND to catch *.domain.com and answer the same ip? Plan A: Generate the zone files from the database. Plan B: Use the beta of Bind

Re: multilanguage site

2000-08-29 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Francesco Pasqualini" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can someone suggest me the best way to build a multilanguage web site (english, french, ..). I'm using Apache + mod_perl + Apache::asp (for applications) Can be usefull XML/XSL whit AxKit ? Is there any example/guideline ? I'm interested

Re: [OT] multipart/mime messages [was: Re: Missing src/include/alloc.h ?]

2000-08-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In modperl, you wrote: "Ime Smits" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should compose a multi-part mime message in that case. I'm not sure if there are modules around to do that in perl... That would be Mime::Lite. Actually, that would be MIME::Lite. Yeah

Re: Acmemail vs WING (was Re: mod_perl-friendly webmail solutions?)

2000-08-23 Thread David Hodgkinson
Leon! Development will start again as soon as yapc::Europe is over and people get back from holiday, honest. Scalability will really only happen when I can get some beefy servers to test it on. What are the scalability issues? I'm looking at the possiblity of doing this for some hundreds of

Re: using mod_perl with SSI-run perl scripts

2000-08-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "BC" == Bogomolnyi Constantin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC mod_perl will never reduce your server load (in fact it will increase it ) This is an absolutely wrong statement. Depends where you're coming from, surely? If you're purely SSI, then you're

Re: Large Memory Sizes

2000-08-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Mike Hodson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked at different documentation, but the methods they give only slow the use of swap, and the processes keep growing, yet slower.. And that documentation included: http://perl.apache.org/guide ? From start to finish? -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Content negotiation Was: Re: HTML Template Comparison Sheet ETA

2000-08-15 Thread David Hodgkinson
Whilst we're on the subject of templates, would anyone care to comment on how they fit with content-negotiated documents? I'm looking at a document for multiple language using Apache MultiViews. (index.html.es, index.html.jp etc). Does this even work with SSI or Apache::SSI? TIA, Dave --

Jobs?

2000-08-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
Is this an appropriate place to advertise one's availability for a couple of weeks mod_perl work? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun

Re: The Template Toolkit (Re: Templating Systems)

2000-07-29 Thread David Hodgkinson
"mgraham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Wardley wrote: * The Template Toolkit is *ONLY* a template system. This is a Good Thing. It processes text (HTML, Latex, POD, etc). You can use it under Apache/mod_perl, in stand-alone CGI scripts, or in other environments entirely

Re: [is it time for something other than html?] RE: Templating system

2000-07-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Jauder Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The template may be kept in memory but it needs to be reparsed to insert real values, no? What I would like to see is a way to say the template is static (header/footer) and does not need to be reparse/regenerated each time and comparitively small portion

Re: Caching data from db

2000-07-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jeff Beard wrote: I have a couple of package globals that I'd like to populate with information from a database when I fire up the web server [...] I thought it might be as simple a declaring the variables and populating

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I would love to have the session management form goodies of the other template systems, our production people are not ready for it (yet). Keep up the excellent work on these other frameworks - I might get to use them one day. :-) There's no

Re: [OT] Is this thread the longest one of July? :-) (was: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Kenneth Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could we just summarize them up as an article? :P Off you go then :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase

Re: Templating system

2000-07-27 Thread David Hodgkinson
Darko Krizic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The program now can repeat the tr "singlerow" for each table row and insert it under the tr "resultheader". The values can be inserted into the tds "row_name" and "row_count". The main advantage is: The designer can generate HTML pages that can be

Re: Templating system

2000-07-27 Thread David Hodgkinson
Darko Krizic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the Template Toolkit? www.template-toolkit.org -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun

Re: Templating system

2000-07-27 Thread David Hodgkinson
Darko Krizic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you know projects must be finished until yesterday. It would be a dream if we could share the templates between Enhydra and Perl. The only problem I see here is the performance. Enhydra compiles the java and the HTML pages and creates methods and a

Re: startup file

2000-07-24 Thread David Hodgkinson
Paul Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, all, I'm quite noew to modperl. I've written a cgi, using cgi.pm that I am moving to modperl. The cgi is written as one main program, with a number of subroutines spread across three libraries that are required into the main program.

Re: Customized Module For Logging In Transfer Log

2000-07-20 Thread David Hodgkinson
Saurabh Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am new to apche and mod_perl. I am trying to write apache module to write some additional parameters to transfer log (access.log). Is anybody have an idea, how can we write additional stuff to access.log including the defaults. Any help

Re: [OT]: Re: ApacheCon Europe - thoughts please ?

2000-07-20 Thread David Hodgkinson
Gunther Birznieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'm sort of kidding here. But the reality is that a conference offers a lot -- not just knowledge (then just attend a tutorial locally at Sun or someplace) but networking. Buying key people lots of beer in other words. -- Dave

Re: Where are mod_perl coders?

2000-07-19 Thread David Hodgkinson
davidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Our company, like.com, has been looking for some experianced mod_perl coders. We have checked most of the major job sites, including guru.com and have not come across any that have real skills. Where do all the mod_perl coders hang out? Here

Re: Anyone know a good perl mailing list?

2000-07-19 Thread David Hodgkinson
kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Whilst I am subscribed to modperl mailing list does anyone know a good general perl mailing list preferably from perl.org or .com I tried subscribing to a few but links where outdated. This is what the comp.lang.perl* Usenet newsgroups are

Re: [OT] Anyone know a good perl mailing list?

2000-07-19 Thread David Hodgkinson
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: True enough, but I can't read newsgroups through our company firewall. Email I can get. www.deja.com? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com

Re: [OT] Anyone know a good perl mailing list?

2000-07-19 Thread David Hodgkinson
blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: deja just plain sucks. i am willing to set up a mailing list, if anyone is interested. i also have no patience with usenet. But deja isn't usenet. Usenet is a decent threaded newsreader hanging off a fast NNTP feed. -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: Installing mod_perl a dozen times ...

2000-07-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what do you think? is it already done? maybe all of a sudden I've got this oh so great idea just because I have not read the instructions to download the latest bundle from CPAN. An expansion on Stas' "10 lines to installing mod_perl" in the

Re: Startup file and process size

2000-07-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
Suresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I am trying use a startup file to load all the used modules in my web application, but when i use the startup file, the size of all the process becomes big. I excpected that only the apache's parent process size becomes become. Also when i ran

Re: PerlRun question

2000-07-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
Andrew Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm researching the nicest way to migrate our CGIs to running under mod_perl, and although they are too dirty to run under Apache::Registry, Apache::PerlRun works just fine. *snip* How dirty is dirty? If it's a case of assembling the globals into

Apache::DBI warning?

2000-07-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
I'm doing a clean install of mod_per and I saw the following warning: defined(@array) is deprecated at /software/perl5.6.0/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/Apache/DBI.pm line 135. (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) Syntax OK Anyone care about this? ;-) Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson,

Re: PerlRun question

2000-07-13 Thread David Hodgkinson
Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't FastCGI have exactly the same issues with dirty code? It's an honest question; I'm not just being difficult. Almost. It runs in the main package as usual so at least you won't see screams about "...won't stay shared..." and such. You also

Re: Idea of an apache module

2000-07-12 Thread David Hodgkinson
Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Putting squid in front of an Apache server used to be very popular - has it fallen out of favor? Most of the answers given in this thread seem to be more of the roll-your-own-cache variety. Squid's OK provided you can coax Apache to send the header

Re: Best book

2000-07-11 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Scott Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used the eagle book. I have done very well with it. Are there really any other books out there on the subject? perl.apache.org/guide of course! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The

Apache::Leak

2000-07-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
I'm investigating smallish memory leakages in a former CGI script that is now running live as an Apache::Registry script. I've done the bits in the famous guide and the SUPPORT document to get a debugging version of mod_perl going. According to the error log output, I'm leaking anything between

Re: Apache::Leak

2000-07-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
David Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perldoc Devel::Peek and perldoc perlguts Ok, done that. I'm still not clear as to what Apache::Leak is trying to tell me. Aside from the DESCRIPTION section of the man page saying "Under Construction" making it seem like you've just asked a

Re: Apache::Leak

2000-07-10 Thread David Hodgkinson
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10 Jul 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Sure - looks like you probably don't have any leaks. I tried chasing this wild goose chase for a while too and ended up just stopping as I wasn't actually leaking any memory, despite what Devel::Leak tried

Re: Apache : mod_perl vs fastcgi

2000-07-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
Dana Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FastCGI with perl may or may not be that fast. I could be totally wrong here but I believe that FastCGI will be able to cache the perl runtime, but perl will still have to reload and recompile any scripts during every hit. Not true. You put some code

New mod_perl site goes live...

2000-07-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
Well, the site's old, but the mod_perl bit of it is brand spanking new. Thanks to sterling work by Ged Haywood and a little bit of tweaking by me: http://www.bargainholidays.com/ Is now mod_perl. Well, the most important script on the site it. Response times are now roughly ten times better

Re: Apache/mod_perl

2000-07-07 Thread David Hodgkinson
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "PS" == Pramod Sokke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS We are running Netscape Enterprise server with cgis written in perl and C. PS I'm looking at moving over to Apache and start using mod_perl. How [ .. ] PS over to Apache/mod_perl going to be a

Re: Perl Registry ... Memory consumption.

2000-07-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
Nigel Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've been trying to setup mod_perl in an Apache/Red Hat Linux/mySQL environment for the last couple of weeks. When running Apache::Registry on production, mod_perl chewed up all the available memory (at that stage only 64

Re: [input] mod_perl and ISPs in the real world

2000-06-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Shane Nay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as most of us know mod_perl doesn't really lend itself well to the "hosted" world because of the way it operates Hmmm...what about a variant of the proxied mod_perl? Picture a lite bulk front-end apache doing the usual stuff then proxying the

Re: [input] mod_perl and ISPs in the real world

2000-06-28 Thread David Hodgkinson
Shane Nay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm...what about a variant of the proxied mod_perl? Picture a lite bulk front-end apache doing the usual stuff then proxying the mod_perl stuff back to a serverly (chargeably?) process-limited apache with a different httpd.conf per site? Nah,

Re: mod_perl and FastCGI, again

2000-06-26 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Kenneth Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, Not performance. Not preference. The question is, will mod_fastcgi and mod_perl conflict when both are compiled into Apache? Theoretically not I think. And what would the consequences be? Please comment. As long as you keep the paths

Re: MaxChildRequests and modperl - issue

2000-06-26 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it doesn't matter whether it's a script or a module. So if startup.pl contains: use CGI ; use DBI ; use My::Application ; Then there's no gain? Of course there is! I'm

Re: MaxChildRequests and modperl - issue

2000-06-23 Thread David Hodgkinson
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I think happens is the children die after their last request, and apache does not kick off a new child straight away.. MinFree is set to 2 .. as 12 becomes 11 becomes 10 becomes 9, my backend is getting less and less powerful and more and more swamped.

Re: MaxChildRequests and modperl - issue

2000-06-23 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jun 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I think happens is the children die after their last request, and apache does not kick off a new child straight away.. MinFree is set to 2 .. as 12 becomes 11

Re: MaxChildRequests and modperl - issue

2000-06-23 Thread David Hodgkinson
Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it doesn't matter whether it's a script or a module. So if startup.pl contains: use CGI ; use DBI ; use My::Application ; Then there's no gain? -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The

Re: mod_perl vs. FastCGI

2000-06-21 Thread David Hodgkinson
"Scott Thomason" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this must have been discussed before, but a mailing list archive search on "fastcgi" didn't turn up much. What guidelines do you folks follow to determine whether FastCGI or Apache::Registry is a better choice? I've 90% written a little

Re: Apache children hanging

2000-06-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
Doug MacEachern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: % gdb httpd $pid_of_spinning_process % source modperl_x.xx/.gdbinit % curinfo oops, that should be: % gdb httpd $pid_of_spinning_process (gdb) source modperl_x.xx/.gdbinit (gdb) curinfo Is this magic in the guide? I'm on the bus

Re: Apache children hanging

2000-06-03 Thread David Hodgkinson
Eric Cholet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've added it to SUPPORT, and it will be added to the guide soonish. Cool. One of those things you hope you never need... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star

Re: High-volume mod_perl based ecommerce sites?

2000-05-26 Thread David Hodgkinson
Jason Bodnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Definitely read the perltoot (Tom's OO Tutorial). I've heard alot of good things about Damian Conway's OO Perl book but I haven't read it myself. The advanced perl programming book has a nice section on OO. But, learning OO in a Java or C++ context

Job: mod_perl developer in London

2000-05-26 Thread David Hodgkinson
The guys I've been working with for the last couple of weeks need a contractor to start moving their more heavily hit scripts to mod_perl. It's likely to be at least a three month gig, but they're looking for someone with real world mod_perl battlefield experience. Then some general code

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