Re: [Slashcode-development] Optimizing slash site

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Christopher Winn wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Here are three facts that will lead up to a question.
>
> 1) When someone hits my slash site, they end up at /index.pl
>
> 2) /homepage/index.shtml exists
>
> 3) A cookie tracks if they're signed in or not (when anonymous, the 
> cookie is user=nobody)
>
>
> Here's what I'm wondering. How can I create something simple that...
>
>
> 1) Checks for a cookie.
>
> 2) If cookie does not exist, or equals nobody, redirect to 
> /homepage/index.shtml
>
> 3) Otherwise, hit index.pl
>
>
> This would really take some load off of dynamic perl, thus helping 
> performance and stability.
> Has anyone done this?
>

There's a var in your site's config:vars that'll turn this behavior on. 
there's another var that'll let you set what filename you want it to 
redirect to.
I think they are index_handler_noanon and index_noanon.

I'm not sure what version of slash you'd need to be running to get this 
behavior built in, probably CVS. If you're not running CVS, there's an 
older apache handler built specifically for this, grab it at 
http://www.lottadot.com/

  Shane