Re: must I use mod-perl

2003-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
, as to whether you need it or not, performance is the main issue. As a rule of thumb, I'd plan to install it for anything where you expect 10 hits a second or more to a perl script or where the script is slow to start because it is large or needs a database connection. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL

Re: HTML::Mason and mod_perl issues with DSO?

2003-06-08 Thread Les Mikesell
. Somewhere as an update to the 7.2 release they got it right and it is solid at least through 7.3 and its updates. The only quirk is that there is a memory leak if you attempt graceful restarts so it is always best to stop/start. I'm not sure about RH8/9 with apache 2.x/mp2. --- Les Mikesell

Re: Job tracking and publishing question.

2003-03-11 Thread Les Mikesell
is on the way so if you would probably want to get the latest beta from http://www.fsck.com/pub/rt/devel/ (2.1.86 now) to start. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shroud+ Perl obfuscator....

2002-12-21 Thread Les Mikesell
wouldn't need the Artistic license. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Online Tonight (Bricolage)

2002-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
to publish pages to a viewing site. Is a working example included or available? I was hoping for something like http://www.plone.org has as a starting point (but of course I want to use apache/mod_perl instead of zope/python). Or do I just have to learn a lot more about Mason myself? --- Les

Re: [OTish] Version Control?

2002-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
to find and fix problems that pop up after an update into production. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT]: In my Farthers House there are many mansions

2002-11-02 Thread Les Mikesell
to questions like that. --- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Optional HTTP Authentication ?

2002-07-01 Thread Les Mikesell
approach appears as a different script to mod_perl so it will cache a separate copy in memory. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Optional HTTP Authentication ?

2002-06-30 Thread Les Mikesell
where you request credentials and omit it for people that don't log in. Or redirect to a different vhost that always requires authentication but serves the same data. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is mod_perl the right solution for my GUI dev?

2002-06-26 Thread Les Mikesell
...). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logging under CGI

2002-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
and it probably doesn't work the same way on Windows. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: File::Redundant (OT: AFS)

2002-04-25 Thread Les Mikesell
once daily to several locations. I'm pushing a lot of stuff around now with rsync which works and is very efficient, but the ability to move the source volumes around transparently and keep backup snapshots is attractive. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: banner system

2002-04-12 Thread Les Mikesell
From: Maarten Stolte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] before i invent the wheel for the xth time, can someone tell me wether there is an (opensource) banner management system in modperl (MASON?). I used this one for a busy site for several years: http://www.sklar.com/dad/. Les Mikesell

Re: WYSIWYG Template Editor

2002-01-01 Thread Les Mikesell
including comments. Some of the layouts never change, but it would really be best if the reporters could generate and control their own templates without having to understand all of the details involved. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any good WebMail programs?

2001-12-13 Thread Les Mikesell
configuration. The webmail program happens to be imp, using php and it currently doesn't have a way to authenticate against LDAP, although an LDAP directory is automatically updated as you add users. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multiple rapid refreshes - how to handle them.

2001-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
This doesn't solve the specific problem, but it is a good idea to tune 'MaxClients' down in httpd.conf to a number that your server can sustain. The browsers may see a few errors during the overload but the server will recover a lot faster when it stops. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Module to catch (and warn about) Code Red

2001-08-05 Thread Les Mikesell
(and that it is almost sure to be re-infected if the patch has not been applied). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Todd Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:51 AM Subject: Re: Module to catch (and warn about) Code Red I

RE: Ultimate Bulletin Board? Jezuz.

2001-07-28 Thread Les Mikesell
It has been a while since I did a comparison but I have mwforum (http://www.mawic.de/mwforum) running under mod_perl without any trouble. I think it is distantly related to wwwthreads but still under the GPL. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: cron for mod_perl?

2001-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
frequently that you don't want to reload perl for every run, but it would be handy to have a scheduling module that would work on windows NT or Win2k to provide the missing cron functionality. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-24 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: "Tomas Edwardsson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 3:01 AM Subject: Re: Using rewrite... The problem is that I can't find a way to send the request

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using rewrite...

2001-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
tp://%{HTTP_HOST}:81/$1 [P] or just duplicate the line with and without the slash in the pattern. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withsc ripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
perl memory is no longer tied up while delivering the output back over frequently slow connections. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
ignificantly smaller for the same load. Likewise, it would be helpful if you would always make the comparison to the dual httpd setup that is often used for busy sites. I think it must really boil down to the efficiency of your IPC vs. access to the full apache environment. Les Mike

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
end server processes recycle themselves as soon as they are free instead of cycling sequentially through all the available processes. Did you mean to imply otherwise or are you talking about something else? Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Javascript - just say no(t required)

2001-01-05 Thread Les Mikesell
cookie-challenged folks anyway. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Rewrite arguments?

2001-01-05 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: "G.W. Haywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Rewrite arguments? On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Les Mikesell wrote: This may or may not be

Re: [OT] Rewrite arguments?

2001-01-05 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: "Dave Kaufman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Rewrite arguments? One of us is missing something. I hope it is me, but when I turn

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
process that is delivering the data even though the processing has been completed. The proxy approach provides some buffering and allows the backend to move on more quickly. Does speedycgi do the same? Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rewrite arguments?

2001-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
the existing part. Will I have to let mod_perl proxy with LWP instead or have I missed something about mod_rewrite? (Modifying the location portion is easy, but the argument list seems to be handled separately). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the edge of chaos

2001-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
to let the requests connect and wait for a process to handle them. If you aren't happy with the speed the machine can realistically produce, get another one (or more) and let the front end proxy to the other(s) running the backends. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting rid of multiple identical http requests (bad users double-clicking)

2001-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
you might as well deliver it as go to this much trouble. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't flush buffers?

2000-12-23 Thread Les Mikesell
of one big table...? Yes, this is most likely the real problem - if the browser has to compute the column widths it can't do it until it has seen the end of the table. You can avoid it by specifying the widths in the table tag or by closing and restarting the table after some reasonable siz

Re: Question

2000-11-22 Thread Les Mikesell
. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Peiper,Richard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Jonathan Tweed'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:20 AM Subject: RE: Question How could they not? Since the files are execu

Re: database access

2000-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: "Gunther Birznieks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Tim Bunce" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Aaron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:04 AM Su

Re: Microperl

2000-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
ense to go that route for a light-weight front-end to heavy mod_perl backend servers, of course. Just curious: what don't you like about mod_rewrite? Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microperl

2000-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: "Bill Moseley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Microperl I don't build mod_rewrite into a mod_perl Apache as I like rewriting with

Re: database access

2000-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Les Mikesell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Tim Bunce" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Aaron" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:21 AM Subject: Re: database access On Tue, 14 Nov

Re: database access

2000-11-14 Thread Les Mikesell
od to use. I wonder if Apache::DBI could figure out what connections are worth holding open by itself? It could have some hints in the config file like regexps to match plus a setting that would tell it not to make a connection persist unless it had seen x instances of that connect string in y

Re: Fast DB access

2000-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Message - From: "Gunther Birznieks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 12:58 AM Subject: Re: Fast DB access Isn't that a beta-level filesystem? At 12:47 AM 11/10/2000 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: - Original Message - From: "Ti

Re: database access

2000-11-10 Thread Les Mikesell
yone timed the difference? Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fast DB access

2000-11-09 Thread Les Mikesell
erFS on a Linux box. It does not suffer from the usual problems when you put a large number of files in one directory and is extremely fast at lookups. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ApacheCon report

2000-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
e can change this.Likewise for any of the load balancer front ends that work on the tcp connection level (but I'd like to be proven wrong about this). Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ApacheCon report

2000-10-30 Thread Les Mikesell
tt's talk on AxKit's cache...) Spreading requests over multiple backends is the fix for this. There is some gain in efficiency if you dedicate certain backend servers to certain tasks since you will then tend to have the right things in the cache buffers. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connection Pooling / TP Monitor

2000-10-28 Thread Les Mikesell
od_rewrite do the first cut at deciding where (or whether) to send a request, but then be able to send to a load balanced, fail over set, preferably without having to interpose another physical proxy. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sending Apache::ASP output to a variable?

2000-10-26 Thread Les Mikesell
exible as being able to reparse the output by a program but it does let people who are likely to break the perl programs use them in their html pages. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DBI/PostgreSQL/MySQL mod_perl intermittent problem

2000-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
QL you may have to use ps and count the postgres processes. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zope functionality under mod_perl

2000-09-30 Thread Les Mikesell
ience down that path)? Have you looked at embperl? The latest version allows you to map the filesystem/URL path to a hierarchy of objects so you can create a top level default and only override the parts you want to change as you go down to different sections - without changes in the page itse

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

2000-09-30 Thread Les Mikesell
e to make any common changes. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]