Hi folks, I'm just implementing the usual light/heavy httpd setup with mod_proxy and mod_cache and have a couple of queries.
The setup is simple - port 80 is my light httpd, serving static and nearly static content, using mod_cache and mod_proxy to send some requests to the heavy mod_perl engine on another port. 1. I was initially put off mod_proxy by the docs ( http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/strategy.html#Apache_s_mod_proxy ) that say mod_proxy has a "difficult case is where you have DNS aliases that map to the same IP address". I then found the ProxyPreserveHost directive which preserves the HTTP Host header when passing the request on - am I right in thinking the docs need to be corrected, and this is no longer an issue? 2. I use mod_gzip for inline compression. Should I put mod_gzip in the heavy or the light httpd? I'm thinking that if heavy httpd compresses it, mod_cache will have less to store and won't have to re-compress. However maybe light httpd should be doing the actual compression work, freeing up heavy for more requests. Any recommendations? cheers John
