Tag: mod_virgule
mod_virgule and Advogato
September 28th, 2006, No Comments
I’ve spent the last week making a lot of mod_virgule tweaks to get my version of the codebase to the point it can run both Advogato and robots.net. My goal is to make the upcoming change-over to the new server and codebase as unnoticeable as possible to Advogato users. Keep you fingers crossed. Next up [...]
Websites come and websites go
September 7th, 2006, No Comments
O’Reilly shut down the wonderful Meerkat aggregator website a while back and now I see that Raph may be shutting down Advogato. Yet another website I frequent, on the subject of Free/Open hardware, almost shut down in June. FreeIO.org has been run by Diehl Martin for years, providing GPL’d hardware designs. Unfortunately, Marty has pancreatic [...]
mod_virgule Attack Resistance
June 21st, 2006, No Comments
lkcl and redi have commented on the ongoing trust metric attack on mod_virgule sites, noting the effects on Advogato. The same thing is happening to other mod_virgule sites including robots.net and ghostscript. I emailed Raph a warning about this activity in May when I first noticed the use of automated programs creating large numbers of [...]
Random August News
August 26th, 2005, No Comments
Another month, another mod_virgule release. With this release, I’ve removed most of the remaining hard-coded, site-specific stuff. It’s now possible to build and install mod_virgule without having to edit the source code to insert the website’s name or the admin’s email address. I’ve moved all that to the site config file where it can be [...]
Mod_Virgule Update
July 27th, 2005, No Comments
I’ve posted another release of my mod_virgule fork this week. Grab the source or take a look at the changelog. This one includes the new and improved configuration handling code. Instead of loading and parsing the entire website configuration on each and every hit, it’s now loaded once per Apache process and stored in thread-private [...]
Mod_Virgule Update
July 21st, 2005, No Comments
I’ve been working on mod_virgule code again. I finally addressed one of the long-standing mod_virgule ToDo items. One of the many inefficiencies of mod_virgule was that it had to load and parse the site configuration XML file on each and every hit. Now that we’re compiling against Apache 2, we can use the newer APR [...]
Porting mod_virgule to Apace 2.x – part II
June 15th, 2005, No Comments
After a little more hacking on Monday, I completed the port of mod_virgule to the Apache 2 API. It’s now running natively using the 2.x APR functions directly – no need for the 1.3 compatibility headers at all. I’m going to bang on it a few more days and then shift robots.net over to it. [...]
Porting mod_virgule to Apace 2.x
June 9th, 2005, No Comments
I got mod_virgule working on Apache 2.x this week. I started with the patch for the official codebase that James Henstridge did back in early 2004. While the official mod_virgule hasn’t changed much in the last couple of years, mine has continued to diverge due to patches for libxml2 and other requested features. So it [...]
