At 12:02 PM -0500 2001/12/31, Joshua Slive wrote:
For what it's worth, here's another novice user perspective. It seems to largely agree with what we discussed last time around.
What we need is some way to put ideas like this into concrete changes in the docs.
2) a glossary of terms that also covers some of the more obscure "unix" terms. usually reserved for servers, and serving related stuff. like "virtual hosting", "NT service", "httpd" - has anyone looked at the man page for that term??? it's entirely in greek!!
some things that would be great now that i'm at first base:
1) i'd love to see "optimization" information, or "the best way to..." stuff. i have some stuff that works - but i really have no idea why. I have some stuff that worked, then didn't work, now works again. and i still haven't figured out what i did to change any of it. i have some stuff that doesn't work at all, but i've got a work around or "second best solution" where i'm sure there must be a better way but just don't have the patience to continue trying to figure it out, when there are more important things to consider like the web content that is supposed to be served..
Not sure about this one. I did a quick Google search for Apache performance tuning and found several articles -- about half were apparently versions of Dean Gaudet's article <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html>, linked from the docs homepage. I'm not sure how seriously to take this point in general, though -- if the user doesn't actually have time to do performance tuning, or search on Google for "Apache performance", he's not really an audience for such a document anyway.
Dean's article is very understated -- do y'all think it would be worth changing so it's a little less self-deprecating? It states Apache in Windows has poor performance -- is this still true?
3) examples of working servers! i've seen plenty of requests before, in other groups, _post_some_examples!!!_ yeah, those... hey, i could post "bad examples that work", i have managed to get multiple virtual hosts happening, but i still can't figure out how to give them there own unique cgi bin, i can't get pdf files to be served from a folder in the cgi-bin path, and i can't get my default ip or www to serve without duplicating it in the virtual host directory with this installation (it worked before). i lost my root log files, till i forced them into a subfolder in my cgi-bin. i'm serving a lot of perl using "activestate perl" and have heard a lot of talk about mod perl, and am terrified to open that can of worms, lest a fish i'm not prepared for, completely overwhelms me, and i end up serving from my apple iie again.
Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
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