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Apparently Apache can do everything I understood only AOLserver could do. Below is an IRC chat log of a discussion on #apache on freenode.
Anyone like to port OpenACS for Apache to attract new developers? Anyone have a feature I missed that pushes AOLServer ahead of Apache?
rarman: um, nothing wrong with aolserver, but it's stupid to claim superiority to apache on those grounds rarman yes but it makes no sense to send an external request to the server - so a 500 error is actually more appropriate and accurate rarman Trisk: explain, without accusing me of being stupid, pls :) Triskelios rarman: that request is a perfectly valid filename if it didn't have http:// rarman Trisk: it did rarman ...have http:// Triskelios rarman: oh, ok Triskelios rarman: apache generally has more modules written for it than anything else, and has a decent track record for security rarman Trisk: so was it a port scan I should be worried about, or is it innocent? spike it's still wrong if one wants to be pricky :P spike return code should been 501, as the proxy service isnt implemented Triskelios true rarman Trisk: agreed that's true - but it's load handling and wide use make it fast but ill-suited for very large sites and ideal security spike but everybody just throws 500 these days rarman Trisk: and there are many many many aolserver modules rarman spike: interesting spike rarman: you should be as worried about it as for any other portscan: not at all Triskelios rarman: um, there's good load-balancing setups for apache spike expecially for such scans, they are simply looking for a server to anonymously look at pr0n or post on l4m3r2 forums, or stuff like that Triskelios rarman: I'm 4 doors down from the lab that wrote mod_vhand spike Triskelios: can I come visiting? :P rarman Trisk: cool Triskelios rarman: security is lenient, but in general that's unfortunately how scripts expect things to be. partially securing the OS helps rarman Trisk: can apache cache a large directory structure for quick retrieval -is it threadsafe with php5? can it share vars across sessions and threads? rarman Trisk: say no to aolserver fud --> http://openacs.org/about/what-is-openacs spike have u got a tshirt with that on? ;D rarman Trisk: does apache support Tcl? spike "Say no to aolserver fud" spike eheh rarman ;) spike goes checking cafeexpress Triskelios s/vhand/backhand/ up there Triskelios but there are apache modules for content caching (both static and dynamic) Triskelios not sure about threading behaviour with php spike not sure about hreading behaviour *of* php ;) Triskelios oi Triskelios looks like php is thread-safe, but uses libraries that aren't and doesn't try to deal with that. fun Triskelios hm, and tcl.apache.org rarman trisk: I was unaware... rarman trisk: interesting... how good is apache with a site with 1000 folders? rarman 10,000 files, and a large postgres/oracle db? Triskelios rarman: just fine. we have more like 100,000 Triskelios we have postgres and mysql for various things spike *ding* spike that's the magic word for today spike postgres :) rarman sounds like apache is more powerful since I last checked ;) spike Triskelios: u won a question :) rarman spike: heh Triskelios we've been running apache for 6 or 7 years spike I'm about to give you ur prize... hang on rarman Trisk: I'll have to bring this abck to the OpenACS community... maybe we could pull off an apache port of our portal toolkit rarman that would be very cool Triskelios *shrugs*