[PyCS-devel] Re: Mail via myelin.co.nz: pycs setup problems

[Phillip P. <pp...@my...>]

PyCS?

That would be cool, although I don't have a mac, so it would be rather
hard for me ;)

Georg Bauer uses one most of the time, I think, so you might want to
ask him.  I'll forward this message to the dev mailing list - let's
see what he has to say.

Cheers,
Phil

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:39:12PM -0600, Alan Sill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How about some Fink-based instructions for use under Mac OS X/  In 
> fact, why not release the whole thing under Fink?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
> 
> On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:27  AM, Phillip Pearson wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:47:33AM -0600, Alan Sill wrote:
> >>What sort of security can I use (I know, that's not the idea but ...
> >>;-/ ) to authenticate users and/or limit postings to originate from
> >>certain domains, etc.?  The university and lab are pretty paranoid
> >>about this sort of thing, even though everything we do is
> >>public-domain, non-classified, non-military etc.
> >
> >Hmm ... if you run it behind an Apache server, and firewall off port
> >5445, you can use Apache access controls to limit access by IP.
> >PyCS's authentication module lets you restrict access to certain blogs
> >by login name -- I think there are some notes on how it works in
> >pycs_auth_handler.py.
> >
> >(Set the default user to have no access, and then you can create
> >logins, etc...)
> >
> >>Also, I notice you dn't seem to use a backing database (at least I
> >>can't recall being asked to set one up).  Your public site must
> >>generate a lot of traffic -- how do you keep that straight?
> >
> >It doesn't generate all that much, actually ;)
> >
> >The data is stored in a MetaKit database, and people's blogs are
> >stored as static HTML in the /var/lib/pycs/www/users/*
> >directories... so it's pretty quick.  The updates page doesn't seem as
> >fast as it could be, and I have my doubts about some of the hit count
> >functions, but I'm not having any trouble.  You'll probably see more
> >load in your lab than I do on my site, but I really doubt you'll faze
> >the server.
> >
> >(I think it should be able to serve at least 50 hits/second when
> >showing blogs etc, and maybe handle 10-50 writes a second.  So until
> >you've got 1000-10000 users, you shouldn't have any trouble!)