PageXchanger

July 16, 2003 – 12:00 am

I get occasional questions from people reading my A List Apart article on mod_rewrite looking for an equivalent module for IIS. Another reader had found one back in 2000, and here’s another:
Port 80 Software’s PageXchanger is a plugin for Microsoft’s IIS that provides mod_rewrite and mod_negotiation functionality.

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mod-rewrite.com

July 16, 2003 – 12:00 am

A site for all things mod_rewrite, the swiss army knife of Apache modules.
They have links to several references on the module, as well as a discussion board you can go to for help.

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We’ve Moved

July 8, 2003 – 12:00 am

Okay, the relocation to the new server is done. Let me know if you run across anything broken.

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The Hidden Power of mod_proxy

June 19, 2003 – 12:00 am

Pier Fumagalli, over at the Cocoon developer’s wiki, explains using Apache’s built-in proxy, instead of additional modules, to wire your servlet engine into your primary web server. Since this stuff works right out of the box, it’s a worthy subsitute for mod_jk, mod_webapp, etc.
I was turned on to this a couple weeks back when, by [...]

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CocoonWiki: GettingStartedWithFlow

April 26, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Erik Thauvin ] Cool, in Cocoon 2.1 you can write components in JavaScript.

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mod_throttle on Mac OS X

April 7, 2003 – 12:00 am

Over at the Red Shed, Jon’s built mod_throttle for the Apache that ships with Mac OS X, now you’re ready for getting Slashdotted, and or attacks on your MT comments by Freepers.

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Redirects and Moveable Type Archives

February 12, 2003 – 12:00 am

I wrote up a response to a LazyWeb request for a script to generate mod_rewrite rules to support a change in naming Movable Type archive files. However, mod_rewrite alone does not solve the problem. Jonathan Delacor summarizes several approaches to the problem.

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Customizing Ultraseek

January 31, 2003 – 12:00 am

CustomUltraseek is an independent site for developers and administrators using Verity’s* Ultraseek search engine.
I used Ultraseek back at EPRI in the late 1990’s, and was impressed with the ample hooks for customizing it through Python.
Since I worked with it last, Ultraseek has been updated to consume and index PDFs, Office documents, and XML.
* Verity [...]

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Reducing Mod_Rewrite Complexity

January 29, 2003 – 12:00 am

Tuesday was spent looking at the baroque set of mod_rewrite rules on the intranet’s Apache server. The module is a wonderful thing, but the more rules to apply, the greater the load on the server.
I’m using mod_rewrite to turn
http://www.example.org/some/path.html
into
http://www.example.org/handler/display.cgi?path=/some/path.html
That’s an easy enough rewrite rule, but even if you apply [L] to stop applying rewrite rules, [...]

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New PHP/Sablotron binaries for Mac OS

January 23, 2003 – 12:00 am

Over at Bitflux, Christian’s announced a package installer of Apache/PHP with the XML extensions (DOM/Sablotron) for OS X. He had to rebuild Apache to get around conflicts, as well as build Sablotron with gcc2. The package installs everything in a different collection of directory trees, so there’s no conflict with your existing Apache server.

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Dive into mod_rewrite

January 16, 2003 – 12:00 am

Comrade Engineer Pilgrim uses mod_rewrite as a way to solve the multiple broken CSS implementation problem without resorting to parser bug exploits.

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Siege: an Open Source Web Server Stress Tester

January 15, 2003 – 12:00 am

Siege is a stress test tool for web servers. It’s written in C, and based on Lincoln Stein’s torture.pl.
It does not have the function set of JMeter, but if you want to verify your server will not fold when flooded with requests, this is a good first step.

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PEAR on Mac OS X

January 15, 2003 – 12:00 am

How to get PEAR up and running on Mac OS X.
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Running QT Streaming Server @ Home

December 14, 2002 – 12:00 am

I don’t believe Apple supports Quick Time Streaming Server on anything other than OS X Server, but don’t let that stop you.

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XML and I18N by Sander van Zoest

November 24, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Jeremy Zawodny ] To read: XML and Internationalization. Why is it called I18N? Because there are eighteen letters between the ‘I’ and the ‘N’.

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