[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Don Marti wrote:
> begin Brian J. Tarricone quotation of Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:25:01AM -0800:
> 
>> I'm not sure I understand what they're suggesting about the use of 
>> mod_cache, though.  If I'm reading it right, it sounds like the first 
>> request from outside gets proxied to the Coral network, but subsequent 
>> requests get cached and served locally (?).  This seems like it defeats 
>> the purpose of using Coral.  Or am I missing something?
> 
> You're right -- I was looking at the wrong example.  The one I want is
> under "Apache mod_rewrite" here:
>   http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php?n=Main.Servers

Hmm, maybe.  I like at least half of the section from your original 
link.  The use of mod_proxy (I think) allows you to do transparent 
redirection -- the visitor doesn't see the .nyud.net added to your 
hostname.  Of course, it occurs to me that your webserver ends up 
fetching the Coralized resource and serving it back to the client, 
right?  That's what mod_proxy does, I would assume, so I guess it's not 
really redirection at all.  So I don't really see the benefit; 
presumably there's something with the mod_cache bit that does something 
cool that I haven't thought of.

Anyhow, yeah, mod_rewrite would be the way to Coralize your site if it's 
getting hammered, though while you're using that method, site visitors 
will get a redirect to the .nyud.net address, which is less than ideal. 
  But I suppose it's hard to complain about free bandwidth ^_~.

	-brian