Slash

Well, some people would like to be able to add non-perl (Think PHP,
Python, not java) things to slash. This cannot be done with Apache 1.x
and Mod_Perl 1.x. I've also been told that Apache 2.x runs more
efficiently than 1.x period, not just on windows. This may not be a
big deal if you run one site on a cluster of 20 something machines,
but if you run multiple small sites on ONE big box, it's a very
important issue. Does the slash team only think about what's best for
Slashdot, or is there any thought devoted to the rest of us?

On 5/23/05, Jamie McCarthy <jamie@...> wrote:
> clifton.wood@... (Clifton Wood) writes:
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> > I have no idea when Slashteam will have the time to get around
> > and work on one, themselves.
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> The only reason I know to use mod_perl 2 is that Apache 2 runs more
> efficiently on Windows.  That's not a platform that Slash supports
> anyway, nor that we have any plans to support.  So I don't see the
> Slashteam ever putting any resources into this (unless mod_perl 1 is
> end-of-lifed, which I'd hope would be far in the future).
> --
>   Jamie McCarthy
>  http://mccarthy.vg/
>   jamie@...
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Regards,
Scott

vladinator@... (William Scott Lockwood III) writes:

> Well, some people would like to be able to add non-perl (Think
> PHP, Python, not java) things to slash. This cannot be done with
> Apache 1.x and Mod_Perl 1.x.

Sure it can, it's a little tricky though.  If anyone out there has
a script to compile apache 1.3 with mod_php and/or mod_python,
along with mod_perl, please share.  Or, Slash can work with DSO
apache as well (I used to run it on mccarthy.vg) though I don't
know if performance is as good (and I didn't keep the script I
wrote to configure it, sorry).

> I've also been told that Apache 2.x runs more efficiently than
> 1.x period, not just on windows. This may not be a big deal if
> you run one site on a cluster of 20 something machines, but if
> you run multiple small sites on ONE big box, it's a very
> important issue. Does the slash team only think about what's best
> for Slashdot, or is there any thought devoted to the rest of us?

A rewrite for apache 2 would be a lot of work.  So yeah, we're
pretty much selfish gits.
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  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie@...