Bill Moseley wrote:
Anyway, I'd like to avoid the repeated queries in mod_perl, of course. So,
in the sort term, I was thinking about caching search results (which is
just a sorted list of file names) using a simple file-system db -- that is,
(carefully) build file names out of the queries
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Sander van Zoest wrote:
starters. A dbm would be fine too, but more trouble to purge old entries
from.
You could always have a second dbm file that can keep track of TTL issues
of your data keys, so it would simply be a series of delete calls.
Granted you would have
Joshua Chamas wrote:
The Hello World 2000 benchmark is complete, and my results are below
Kind of harsh results for Template Toolkit, but it makes sense given the
nature of the test. Variable interpolation in TT provides extra
functionality to give transparent access to method calls, coderefs,
Sam Horrocks wrote:
Don't agree. You're equating the model with the implemntation.
Unix processes model concurrency, but when it comes down to it, if you
don't have more CPU's than processes, you can only simulate concurrency.
[...]
This url:
Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:
Does this mean that mod_perl's memory hunger will curbed in the future using some of
the neat tricks in Speedycgi?
Yes. The upcoming mod_perl 2 (running on Apache 2) will use MRU to
select threads. Doug demoed this at ApacheCon a few months back.
- Perrin
Justin wrote:
Thanks for the links! But. I wasnt sure what in the first link
was useful for this problem, and, the vacuum bots discussion
is really a different topic.
I'm not talking of vacuum bot load. This is real world load.
Practical experiments (ok - the live site :) convinced me that
Hi Sam,
I think we're talking in circles here a bit, and I don't want to
diminish the original point, which I read as "MRU process selection is a
good idea for Perl-based servers." Your tests showed that this was
true.
Let me just try to explain my reasoning. I'll define a couple of my
base
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Paul Phillips wrote:
Now, I'm interested in looking at web authoring from the reverse
perspective - embedding Perl in html.
A quick look tells me that there are a number of possibilities out there --
Apache ASP
Mason
Embperl
HTML::Template
There are probably some
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Alexander Farber (EED) wrote:
Why? With HERE you can't indent your code:
Left-aligning the final line never really bothered me, since it doesn't
bother emacs. To each their own I guess. I find the HERE doc to be one
of the nicest Perl idioms.
- Perrin
my Oracle gurus here tell me that whenever a package changes any open
connections will get this error. Since the connection itself ok (just not
the stuff I need to use) the only solution currently available seems to be
$r-child_terminate() so that at least that child doesn't barf every time.
Gunther Birznieks wrote:
Sam just posted this to the speedycgi list just now.
[...]
The underlying problem in mod_perl is that apache likes to spread out
web requests to as many httpd's, and therefore as many mod_perl interpreters,
as possible using an LRU selection processes for picking
Hi Sam,
Processes 1, 2, 3 are running. 1 finishes and requests the mutex, then
2 finishes and requests the mutex, then 3 finishes and requests the mutex.
So when the next three requests come in, they are handled in the same order:
1, then 2, then 3 - this is FIFO or LRU. This is bad
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Ken Williams wrote:
So in a sense, I think you're both correct. If "concurrency" means
the number of requests that can be handled at once, both systems are
necessarily (and trivially) equivalent. This isn't a very useful
measurement, though; a more useful one is how
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Justin wrote:
I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would
just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server.
I think you'll find thttpd (http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/) faster
and somewhat better documented. However, I'd like to point out
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
The rand() is only in there to prevent a language compiler
from rendering the whole thing static if it were able to
guess that all of the variables would be knowable by
unwinding the for loops.
Instead of using a random number, why don't you pas
Joshua Chamas wrote:
Use Apache::Resource, PerlModule everything you can
especially Apache::ASP, and use Apache::ASP-Loader()
to precompile your scripts. If you are getting
out of memory errors, make sure your MaxRequests are
low (200 often), MaxClients low (100 often), and use a
mod_proxy
Gunther Birznieks wrote:
But it's a shame that the only way to
get faster than PHP is to write a raw Mod_perl handler according to the
benchmarks. All the other mod_perl tools seem slower.
It makes sense though. All the other tools do more setup work on each
request: parsing input,
Joshua Chamas wrote:
The first of these runtime benchmarks is geared towards templating
or embedded environments like ASP,PHP,Embperl,JSP,Mason ... the
Hello World 2000 benchmark below has these characteristics:
2+ levels of code layering
1 rand() value per request
6 for loops
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote:
I have this dangling idea of building a TWIG lookalike (in Perl), with
a 'plug-in'/'module' structure, so I may write the email client, and
others fill with their desired modules.
Is there a reason you don't want to just hack on WING? It's a
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote:
I'm working on a modperl site that doesn't presently handle HEAD
requests properly (it returns the entire content).
If all the information you need to generate a given page is in the URL,
you can also let mod_proxy cache it and handle the HEAD requests
Andrew Ho wrote:
someone else already mentioned, it also doesn't use mod_perl itself. :)
I'm baffled by the insistence of everyone on this thread that a bunch of
static pages like the ones on perl.apache.org should be served by
mod_perl. Shall I show you all how to change Apache's headers? We
FYI-- here are some Apache::Session benchmark results. As with all
benchmarks, this may not be applicable to you.
Thanks for taking the time to run these and write up the results.
Benchmark: This benchmark measures the time taken to do a create/read for
1000 sessions. It does not destroy
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
Perrin Harkins wrote:
Apache::Session::File - Dual-PIII-600/512MB/Linux 2.2.14SMP: Ran 4
times.
First time: ~2.2s. Second time: ~5.0s. Third time: ~8.4s. Fourth time:
~12.2s.
Is there any reason not to use a file tree approach (splitting
Please read the archives of this list before asking for Perl/PHP
comparisons. It has been discussed ad nauseum. There are many good
search interfaces for the list archives that will direct you to the
previous posts.
- Perrin
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
In that vein, I'd love to see an article on mod_perl and JSP
cooperating. That is, a website that uses both and admits that each
has its place. I know a lot of people don't like Java (I'm one of
them), but mentioning JSP is the foot in the door
Here's a patch for the sites.html page that adds information on our use of
mod_perl at eToys.
- Perrin
309a310,316
The Internet's largest on-line toy store, a
href="http://www.etoys.com/"eToys.com/a, uses mod_perl extensively.
We use an object-oriented approach built on standard CPAN
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
If you have linux you have (or can have GTop), which gives you an API to
do this and many other things. Apache::SizeLimit::linux_size_check is just
a custom function that you cannot really re-use (unless you put it into
some other module...
The enterprise mod_perl architectures idea that I posted earlier has
evolved
into a slightly modified idea: a 'scaling mod_perl' site:
http://www.lifespree.com/modperl.
The point of this site will be to talk about synthesize techniques for
scaling, monitoring, and profiling large,
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Doran L. Barton wrote:
I've got information stored in a DBI-accessible database. I would like to
read this information from the database and populate an object with the
data (really just a tree of hashes). This database "dump" into the object
should occur at child-init
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Ivan E. Panchenko wrote:
Today I discovered a strange behaiviour of perl,
and I wonder if anybody can tell me what to do with it.
The matter is that perl DOES NOT REUSE MEMORY allocated for
intermediate calculation results. This is specially harmful to
data-intensive
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote:
All this talk about DDD is making me wonder if there is a suitable
(graphical) Perl IDE that I can run on Gnome.
Last time I tried them, I found ptkdb a bit nicer than DDD, mostly because
DDD was kind of slow. I don't know how easy it is to
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jimi Thompson wrote:
Everything required to make the module work ought to be included in
the package or at least cross referenced to it.
Newer versions of CPAN resolve dependencies for you, and you can always
make a Bundle:: for your project.
- Perrin
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote:
I've always considered mod_perl to be completely debugger-unfriendly.
That's why I write modules that I can test from a standard script, and
then call those modules from Embperl pages or Registry scripts.
Apache::Debug works. It's almost
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jimi Thompson wrote:
That would be a comment from me :) On Sparc-Solaris 2.6, getting CPAN
to install the dependent modules or even tell you what they are
doesn't always (read - seldom - at least in my experience) work.
If that's the case, you should speak to the authors
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote:
I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite.
I'll look at those.
Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also,
File
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote:
I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite.
I'll look at those.
Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also,
File::Cache is sometimes faster than the IPC modules. I don't think any
of these solve problems like sharing sockets and
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
I've worked with both (Java 2 EE and tools like Apache::ASP/Mason).
What people want out of an "enterprise solution" is a middle tier
which is not tied into the presentation. When you free your process
decisions from the presentation in that way, you
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote:
i know there are several people on the list who swear by
"all handlers, all the time". i've never heard anybody give
a reason for that preference that actually made sense to me.
That usually comes up in the context of handlers vs. Apache::Registry.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Michael Nachbaur wrote:
This is exactly what people mean on this list about people not
understanding the principles of enterprise programming.
Easy there. You don't know anything about me or how much traffic my site
handles.
THere is absolutely no way to scale a system
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:
Transaction support for your business logic is easy in J2EE. It's not
clear how you do this in Perl?
Use an RDBMS.
what about transactions that span data sources? yes, this
does happen.
Someone
I don't see the reason why it isn't working, but here are a couple of
notes that might lead you to something.
package SiteConfig;
%hash=();
and define a fill_hash() routine in another package:
package common;
use SiteConfig;
sub fill_hash() {
%SiteConfig::hash = ('name' = 'value',);
Edmar Edilton da Silva wrote:
I still didn't solve the problem of the Apache::DBI. It can not be
loaded into the apache's startup.pl file because happens a error during
the starting of the apache, the child processes are not created. For
using the Apache::DBI I had to add the "use
Andreas Schiffler wrote:
Hi,
I seem to have an odd problem with variable setup and use. The platform
is apache/mod_perl as per LinuxMandrake 7.1.
Here is the setup:
A) I have a configuration.pm with variable declarations and no "use
strict" similar to this:
...
@array=()
...
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Francesc Guasch wrote:
I'm building a web application using mod_perl. Sometimes when I
do tests using a slow connection I get empty pages returned.
This doesn't happen from the local net.
The server used for the test isn't tuned and it has low cpu and ram.
Could this
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, cbell wrote:
After tying a hash variable to a session, and writing to it, I would
like to undef my hash variable just to make sure that the session lock
file is deleted. However, when I do this, then any changes I make to
the session hash don't get saved.
Well, yeah.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
I have a huge project with lots of tables, and the performance wasn't that
well. So I've started to review the tables definitions and have found that
some indices were missing. I was sick from doing the tracing of all
possible SQL calls manually, so I
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
Looks like it does pretty much the same but returns too much info, which
makes it quite hard to use when you have 100+ queries in some requests :)
I suspect it would be pretty easy to add in a threshold like the one in
your module.
And fetch()es are
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to set up a cache, storing html templates and perl widgets (held
in MySQL) that are regularly eval'd. I want to attach timestamps and hit
counts to each stored scalar, to help decide which are the most
important values to cach, and allow
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tim Bunce wrote:
I'm puzzled why people wouldn't just use version 3 of Berkeley DB (via
DB_File.pm or BerkeleyDB.pm) which supports multiple readers and
writers through a shared memory cache. No open/close/flush required
per-write and very very much faster.
Is there a
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
I'm working on a new module to be used for mod_perl style
caching. I'm calling it MLDBM::Sync because its a subclass
of MLDBM that makes sure concurrent access is serialized with
flock() and i/o flushing between reads and writes.
I looked through
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
HTTP::GHTTP is a lightweight HTTP client library based on the gnome
libghttp library. It offers a pretty simple to use API for doing HTTP
requests. This can be useful under mod_perl because the alternatives
(e.g. LWP) are quite large.
Any idea how it
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
On my box, some rough numbers in writes per sec, with doing a
tie/untie for each write, are:
sync writes/sec with tie/untie
SDBM_File 1000
DB_File 30
GDBM_File 40
Note that on a RAM disk in Linux, DB_File goes to 500
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
Most normal applications do not require every bit of speed eeked out
of them that may be possible with an Apache handler. In the mod_perl
guide, a reasonably fast machine (which most production mod_perl sites
run on) shows very little time
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
it's the lack of a 304 that's bothering me (today :)
If I just put your lines into a handler I get this from netscape:
If-Modified-Since = Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:48:04 GMT; length=1150
but, since there is no modification time for the 'document' to
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Andrew Chen wrote:
The new parameter (which in the example was moe and not joe, my mistake)
will be a "webid", a unique identifier for each website that is parsed out
of the physical location of the file.
For example,
www.joe-honda-dealer.com/inventory.jsp
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has some experience with expire headers for
dynamic documents - kinda like mod_expires but for dynamic stuff.
We do this, and let mod_proxy use our headers to control its cache and
handle If-Modified requests.
anyone else
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
I'd like to see a talk on templating systems and mod_perl. Hint to whomever
is watching. :)
I was planning to submit my paper, "Perl Templating Systems Deathmatch".
I'd also be very interested in performance benchmarks related to some of
the
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
I think that was the thread where a couple of really nice people said they
were going to summarize the long thread for everyone to benefit from in the
future because it's such a common topic. But I guess time has gotten the
best of them as
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Tom Harper wrote:
was wondering what other folks set their child process
expiration at for best performance with mod-perl (and
why) ?
I set it to 0 and use Apache::SizeLimit. No point in killing a process
that isn't too large just because it served x number of
Thomas Klausner wrote:
If there isn't, could it be implemented by dumping the data
structure to $r-notes (with Data::Dumper) and have it eval'ed back
by the next handler?
If you use $r-pnotes, you can just put a reference to an arbitrary data
structure into it and it will still be there in
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Would you be interested in adding support for resetting some of these to
Apache::DBI? It's pretty easy to do, using PerlCleanupHandler like the
auto-rollback does. It would be database-specific though, so you'd have
to find a way for people to
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Apache::DBI is, as far as I know, dangerous, and people rarely seem to
warn of this.
It's no more dangerous than any other scheme for persistent connections,
like JDBC pooling, etc.
It's dangerous because:
(a) Although it rolls back any transactions
Greg Cope wrote:
Have you benchmarked this vs IPC::ShareLite ?
Sorry, I don't have numbers for ShareLite vs. files. However, this is
from DeWitt Clinton's File::Cache module docs:
File::Cache implements an object store where data is persisted across
processes in the filesystem. It was
"Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd" wrote:
3. We have a problem rebuilding this database in the ram even say every
1000 requests.
What problem are you having with it?
We tried using dbm and found it a good compromise solution.
We found that it is about 8 times faster than
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote:
Something else that seems to work well, although I can't really
explain it, is to disable keepalive support. For some reason, the
number of concurrent processes (for a single server setup) went from
70-80 to approx. 20(!), without a noticeable
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd wrote:
When we rebuild the hash in the RAM it takes too much time.
Did you try using Storable as the data format? It has a function to load
from files which is very fast.
- Perrin
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote:
If you have a caching proxy server running in front of your mod_perl
server (like mod_proxy or Squid), you can just set Expires headers in your
pages and this will be handled for you by the proxy.
True, both methods have advantages and
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 been doing quite well without such a setup for some
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Todd Finney wrote:
The only difficulty then remaining is the existing CGI
scripts that this system wraps. There are several dozen of
these in place already, and changing the argument handling
would be rather tedious. Do you know of an easy method for
handling that
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd wrote:
We want to share a variable across different httpd processes.
Our requirement is as follows :
1. We want to define one variable (which is a large hash).
2. Every httpd should be able to access this variable (read-only).
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Marinos J. Yannikos wrote:
If possible with your data, it'd probably be a good idea to generate
static pages on-the-fly using mod_rewrite as in the related guide:
http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/#ToC33.
If you have a caching proxy server running in front
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Ruslan Sulakov wrote:
source: http://perl.apache.org/guide/dbm.html
q: Is there a way to lock BerkeleyDB(Not DB_File) version 2.x and 3.x?
Read the BerkeleyDB docs. It has a built-in page-level locking scheme.
- Perrin
Todd Finney wrote:
This another follow-up to a previous thread, "maximum
(practical) size of $r-notes", from last week. We're
trying to redirect the output of $subr-run(), and return
it as a variable instead of sending it to the browser.
Usually people consider this, realize that it's
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.
- Perrin
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
Lately I've been getting very interested in using solid-state disks
for high-performance issues. They're expensive, but if you need that
much speed, they're worth it.
Are they? I tried one once, and it wasn't any faster than my normal disk
because I
On 3 Nov 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote:
In my tests, a modern version of mod_proxy (serving from cache) was faster
than Squid on Linux.
Really? Cool. What about taking memory usage into account?
Well, Squid is kind of a memory hog and mod_proxy has been extremely light
and well-behaved,
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Michael wrote:
#handler
package MyHandler;
use Module qw(sub1 sub2);
use Apache;
use vars qw(@ISA)
@ISA = qw (Module Apache);
calling sub1 from apache
using THIS handler named "MyHandler" results in Module::sub1
identifing the "caller" as Apache.
Okay, I'll
Tim Bunce wrote:
You could have a set of apache servers that are 'pure' DBI proxy servers.
That is, they POST requests containing SQL (for prepare_cached) plus
bind parameter values and return responses containing the results.
Basically I'm proposing that apache be used as an alternative
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
* Case studies showing how big companies use mod_perl
This latter is an important part of the Perl conference. Many
companies who would never 'fess up to using Perl seem quite happy
to send employees to speak at conferences. Their talks end up
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
Definitely use exceptions. I prefer Error.pm for this (sorry, Dave!),
which allows your handler to simply be:
sub handler {
return try {
...
} catch Exception::RetCode with {
my $E = shift;
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
I still like the idea of having mod_rewrite in a lightweight
front end, and if the request turns out to be static at that
point there isn't much point in dealing with proxying.
Or if the request is in the proxy cache...
Has anyone tried putting
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
As a bonus, if you write your app smart with cache directive
headers, some of the dynamic content can truly be cached by the front-end
server.
We're using this technique now and it really rocks. Great performance.
- Perrin
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Scott Alexander wrote:
Is it in anyway possible to tie the hash once to a dbm file?
At the moment it is tied every time a script is called.
There's a whole chapter on this: http://perl.apache.org/guide/dbm.html.
The short answer is that you have to tie the dbm file
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:
[...]
- Don't use a proxy server for doling out bytes to slow clients; just set
the buffer on your sockets high enough to allow the server to dump the
page and move on. This has been discussed
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
exactly the same thing (changing server logs into a benchmark tool) at
ApacheCon, only I can't for the life of me remember who it was.
Theo, during the mod_backhand talk, or at lunch just before, I
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Kermit Tensmeyer wrote:
ProxyPassReverse works as described and modifies
the Location header. Is there something else that
will filter/translate included URL's?
For example
ProxyPass /product/itemA/
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Marek W wrote:
Do you possibly know what could have caused this error while trying to run
this module. I use Linux RH 6.2. and mod_perl 1.23
I've had problems with Apache::DB when using Apache::Request. I have not
attempted to solve them yet.
- Perrin
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Tim Sweetman wrote:
Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tim Sweetman wrote:
In no particular order, and splitting hairs some of the time...
Sounded like mod_backhand was best used NOT in the same Apache as a phat
application server (eg. mod_perl),
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ultimately, I don't see any way around the fact that proxying from one
server to another ties up two processes for that time rather than one, so
if your bottleneck is the number of processes you can run before running
out of RAM, this is not a good
Gunther Birznieks wrote:
Just wondering who all from mod_perl is going to ApacheCon/Europe next week
and are there any plans to get together like there was at PerlCon.
I'm going to be there. Some kind of get together would be cool. I'd
like to hear about what other people are working on.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
How about Harvey Floorbangers, from 7 till late. (erm, I think late might
still be 11pm for england *sigh*)...
"With a name like Harvey Floorbangers you'd expect this to be a cheesy
theme bar with singing bar staff and signed guitars on the
wall.
Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:
I think I might have been a slight bit confusing in the email. I need to
have apache be able to *recieve* the POST and GET requests. I know how to
send the XML to another server, I just need to know how to get *my*
server to handle the requests/data from other
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Stephen Anderson wrote:
There's DBI::Proxy already. Before jumping on the "we need pooled
connections" bandwagon, you should read Jeffrey Baker's post on the
subject here:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/breetalwox/38B4DB3F.612476CE@acm
.org
People
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Todd Chapman wrote:
I am trying to set up httpd.conf so that documents in
/home/httpd/html/mason are handled by HTML::Mason but documents in
/home/httpd/html/mason/perl are handled by Apache::Registry.
The problems in that while Mason works, the Apache::Registry cgi
Hi Ajit,
It's not entirely clear to me what problem you're trying to solve here.
I'll comment on some of the specifics you've written down here, but I
may be missing your larger point.
OBJECTIVE
Provide a perl server that can execute miscellaneous perl jobs that
will communicate with
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Todd Chapman wrote:
That only solves half the problem. Since it is a virtual directory, how
will Apache::Registry know where 'cgifile' really exists so it can run it?
Either put it under your docroot or use the standard Alias stuff:
Alias /perl/ /home/httpd/perl/
martin langhoff wrote:
You mean you post-process your httpd.conf ? Phew!
mmmh. I'm flabbergasted (sp?) and certainly mesmerized, can you tell us
a bit more?
It's pretty simple. We have a file with the varying bits of info in it
(MaxClients, MaxRequestsPerChild, etc.) and a small program
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, John Reid wrote:
The problem I am facing is with our database definition files. These are
custom files which are required at run time. The file consists of a long
series of subroutine calls with arguments that refer to the definitions
of fields, tables, etc. They are used
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Philip Molter wrote:
Recently, one of my co-employees has been messing around with Zope
(http://www.zope.org) and I was wondering if there's a package that
provides similar functionality using mod_perl and Apache rather than
its own web server. Specically, what I want to
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote:
the Apache::DB docs explain this:
The connection between Apache::DProf and calling something in Apache::DB
was not obvious to me until I thought about how DProf works.
it should probably be made more clear though, maybe a comment in the
config
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