Apache on Notes

Quick startup to Apache bliss

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 11:36:20 +0000

So you need a Apache setup with PHP or mod_perl, and you need it fast.

Head on over to ApacheFriends website, and download XAMPP. It’s a pre-compiled version of Apache with all the best and most useful modules already compiled and configured.

They have four distributions: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Solaris. All the versions are stable except the Mac OS X. They are still ironing out the last details on that one.

The Mac OS X version includes:

The distribution for Mac OS X contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, SQLite, Perl, ProFTPD, phpMyAdmin, OpenSSL, GD, Freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, zlib, Ming, Webalizer, mod_perl, phpSQLiteAdmin.

Very cool stuff.

Apache 2.1

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:28:18 +0000

I just noticed that Apache 2.1 documentation is available in the usual place.

Some new features, the most interesting being mod_proxy_balance.

I’m still biased to Perlbal because of the internal redirection to a local file feature.

RPC and Perl

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:11:05 +0000

During the last couple of years, the idea of a simple to use RPC system for Perl has been on my mind. I’ve done several designs, mostly focused in object oriented perl, but never did one I really like.

It’s been a challenge that I pick up whenever I can.

Today, Ricardo pointed me to mod_perlservice, a very simple RPC system for Perl. I’m still looking into it, it seems to be function-oriented, not object-oriented, but it also seems extremely simple to use. As a added bonus, it has clients in C and Flash out of the box.

I’ll have to do something with it to test it out, don’t know what yet.

If you want to follow the project, you can subscribe the freshmeat entry for this project.

Simplicidade is now mod_deflated

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:34:33 +0000

I just turned on mod_defalte on this site. If you notice any problems, just drop me a comment.

The setup I’m using right now is this:

# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
# BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png|zip)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

Got it from this site. I dropped the Location stuff he was using and put the directives above in the global config.