[Koha-devel] mod_perl

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Nov 26 00:27:57 CET 2008


Clay Fouts wrote:

> Having managed this sort of configuration with MediaWiki, I've had
> thoughts about using it for hosting Koha instances. It has a number of
> advantages, including being more amenable to mod_perl. The biggest
> drawback to this configuration is when applications care about the
> port number on which the HTTP daemon received a request (as MediaWiki
> does) since it's invariably not the port that you want further
> requests to go to. Have you experienced issues like that with Koha?

We use name-based virtual hosting instead of different ports.

All web request to all Koha instances go to port 80, and then
Apache sorts them out and dispatches by hostname.

Fairly common and straightforward web farming technique, wouldn't you
say ;)


cheers
rickw


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