On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > The release of 1.2.0 caused an unprecedented amount of traffic on our > site; so much so that the bandwidth provider for www.apache.org has > begun to grumble. To address this, we have taken some measures to bolster > the effectiveness of the site in supporting mirrors:
why am I not surprised? ;) If netscape can do it, so can we... I think the load on apache's central site means that it shouldn't even be linked as a download site, (smart users will go directly to the FTP, but web surfers will never be turned directly to ftp://www.apache.org). > 4) I have turned on "Expires" headers for the whole site, meaning content > will stay in proxy caches (and ideally, ProxyPass-based mirrors) for 24 > hours after being accessed. how about 48 hours for two weeks? > 1) We will now be running CGI scripts on mirror sites. Previously all CGI > scripts, such as the search field and bug database, had an explicit link > back to www.apache.org. These CGI scripts only rely upon perl 4 (or 5) > being at "/usr/local/bin/perl". Is this a problem? I imagine every perl installation around has either the binary or a link there, to support the many scripts out there. > 2) Sites which pull down their content via ProxyPass will not have > dynamically generated mirror pages, though they should be cacheable. I hope I'm not out of my line here: is this method at all realistic for this use? sounds to me like a cool way to mirror joe's page of jokes, not a busy site such as Apache is. > There may be more issues brought up by this than I anticipated - let's first: where are the CGI's going to sit permanently? if there is a cgi-bin dir, we should make sure there is a ScriptAlias for it, otherwise make *.cgi executable in the apache dir (default for me, but not for some). maybe make sure through a .htaccess to cover at least SOME of the holes. (assuming it's allowed to override) ok, off to check on what's new since the night... :) ------------------------------------------------------------- Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scalable Solutions POBox 3600, Jerusalem 91035, Israel Tel (972)2-642-6822 http://www.scso.com/~ira Check out: http://www.linux.org.il
