BAZOMBO: a discursive miscellany of topics

not quite ready for prime time

Saturday, October 06 2007

A few things are still causing me headaches with Burble.

• mod_rewrite with the [P] flag decodes the URI before proxying. This is a known bug. The practical upshot is that I cannot have URLs with encoded question marks (or anything else significant to HTTP), even though that’s quite legal, because mod_rewrite will turn them back into literals. This wouldn’t be a problem if I had a server of my own, where I could set up proxying properly, but in a shared setup where all you can do is use whatever’s allowed in .htaccess, it means my plans to have titles be part of an URL are ruined.
• I may have an eensy weensy bijou memory leak. Just because your language has garbage collection doesn’t mean you can’t leak memory. This again is considered rude in a shared hosting scenario…
• … and that might be why Burble has dropped dead silently once or twice in the last couple of days for no obvious reason (naughty processes get killed on this box when they hit the user’s memory limit).

So near, and yet so far. It’s frustrating.

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Tags: burble ~ mod_rewrite ~ hosting

Victory is mine?

Friday, October 05 2007

I think I did it. (update: I changed the path when I finally cut over, so I’m fixing it here too.)

But I’m going to be a little cautious and leave the full cutover until tomorrow. Because I’m just a wee bit too tiddly to be wrestling with mod_rewrite at this time of night.

Mind you, given my normal experience with mod_rewrite, being totally trollied first might actually help.

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Tags: mod_rewrite ~ burble ~ vital.org.nz

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