Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 12923 invoked by uid 6000); 10 Oct 1999 20:16:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 12865 invoked from network); 10 Oct 1999 20:16:51 -0000 Received: from internal.mail.demon.net (193.195.224.3) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 10 Oct 1999 20:16:51 -0000 Received: from fanf.eng.demon.net (fanf.eng.demon.net [195.11.55.89]) by internal.mail.demon.net with ESMTP id VAA05027; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:16:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from fanf by fanf.eng.demon.net with local (Exim 3.03 #2) id 11aPNQ-000JTt-00; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:15:28 +0100 To: Odinn Sorensen From: Tony Finch CC: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] apache_1.3.9-mod_rewrite-hash-patch In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:15:28 +0100 Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org os@wol.dk (WOL - Odinn Sorensen) wrote: > >While investigating ways to do really massive virtual hosting, I needed some >way to introduce hashing of document roots, without the overhead of calling >external mapping programs. How big is "really massive"? Demon use a layout similar to the second example described in http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_vhost_alias on the Homepages system which has about 70,000 vhosts. Using a hash is attractive from the point of view of doing it properly, but in my experience it makes it harder for the sysadmins to locate a particular web site in the filesystem for debugging or support or whatever. >The following patch to mod_rewrite (against 1.3.9), adds a new internal >mapping function, "hash" and the configuration directive RewriteHashBuckets. Cool, but I still think you should use mod_vhost_alias (of course I would). Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net