[pLog-svn] resserver usage

[Paul Westbrook]

Hello,
    I was thinking that we could do an easy solution with a plugin.   
(This is a little bit of a hack but it should work, and the core  
LifeType doesn't have to change.)

The plugin would register for the EVENT_POST_RESOURCE_ADD,  
EVENT_POST_RESOURCE_UPDATE, and EVENT_POST_RESOURCE_DELETE events.   
When the plugin gets one of these events, it would iterate through  
the resources and create mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess for each  
of the resources in the specified blog.  These rules would convert  
the urls that are generated by the current RequestGenerator into the  
url to the file itself.

    apache would need to have access to modify the .htaccess file in  
the LifeType root directory.  Alternatively, when using Custom URLs,  
you can specify a "resource" directory, and have the plugin put  
the .htaccess file there.

This plugin would also have to run after changing the url format.


--Paul


On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Oscar Renalias wrote:

> Just to see how much overhead resserver.php has, I wrote a very short
> script that will load the same URL 100 times using curl. I ran it once
> using a resserver.php URL and a second time loading the same file
> using the web server (straight from the "gallery" folder)
>
> I run this in my work laptop and the results are a bit... well,  
> disappointing:
>
> $ time ./repeat.sh
> ...
> real    0m13.339s
> user    0m5.911s
> sys     0m3.830s
>
> $ time ./repeat.sh
> ...
> real    0m34.178s
> user    0m6.011s
> sys     0m3.530s
>
> You can guess which one is which. I've attached the script, you will
> have to edit it to find two suitable URLs and alter the value of the
> $URL variable depending on what you want to test but I am expecting
> comparable results.
>
> I am busy with something else right now but if somebody wanted to take
> a closer look at this issue we can create a branch in svn to play
> around...
>
> On 9/28/06, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>> > When I said hidden resources, I meant hidden albums. There is a  
>> checkbox when
>> > creating an album that makes it not appear in the list of albums  
>> in the
>> > public side of the blog. I don't see how this could be possible,  
>> although I
>> > am not sure how many people are really using this feature.
>>         But, I still don't get it - they can still be hidden -  
>> URLs aren't
>> ever revealed.
>>
>> > Regarding URLs and subdomains, I know things like
>> > http://subdomain.server.com/gallery/1/general/test.jpg will work  
>> but
>> > considering we're using subdomains, would it be possible to have  
>> something
>> > like http://subdomain.server.com/gallery/general/test.jpg?  
>> (without the blog
>> > id)
>>         Ah, yes.  That wouldn't work.
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Paul Westbrook
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