[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Don Marti]

begin Brian J. Tarricone quotation of Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:14:49PM -0800:

> > 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 ^_~.

You still use your own server for the pages you want an incoming
link to -- your HTML gallery page or the RSS for your podcast.  Redirect
to Coral to handle the big images and audio files.

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Don Marti                    
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