Tag Archives: apache
mod_perl 1 blows chunks
At $WORK, I’m looking at a web service built on mod_perl 1 / Apache 1. The service takes XML as input and returns XML as output. So far, so good. Unfortunately, whilst I was testing with curl, I found something … Continue reading
mod_security now switched off
Last night, I spent a long while trying to get mod_security working on this web server. Installation was simple, thanks to the FreeBSD ports system. Configuration was another matter entirely. Not having much experience of web application firewalls, I opted … Continue reading
Mongrel's Default Charset
I suddenly noticed that my last entry had Unicode problems. How embarrassing. It turns out that mongrel doesn’t set a default charset, so the usual caveats apply. Looking through the mongrel docs, you can do something with the -m option, … Continue reading
Log Rotation
I hate log rotation. It’s a pain to configure on my FreeBSD server. Just look at newsyslog.conf. That, and my experiences of the utter non-portability of log rotation programs between different Unixes have led me to believe that programs should … Continue reading
mod_perl 2 not ready yet
I’ve spent nearly three days this week trying to port one of our sites to Apache 2.2 and mod_perl 2.0.2 (from Apache 1.3.33). It should be a relatively simple exercise thanks to the porting notes available: Upgrading to 2.2 from … Continue reading
Cygwin / Apache
A quick note about running Apache under cygwin. If you just run httpd2 on it’s own, you get an error about “invalid system call”. Very annoying. A quick bit of googling reveals that you have to have something called cygserver … Continue reading