Appendix A: Downloading software and documentation

Here you will find instructions for downloading the software and its related documentation.

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Perl is probably already installed on your machine, but you should at least check the version you are using. It is highly recommended that you have at least Perl version 5.004. You can get the latest perl version from http://www.perl.com/ . Try the direct download link http://www.perl.com/pace/pub/perldocs/latest.html . You can get Perl documentation from the same location (although copious documentation is included in the downloaded Perl distribution).

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You can download most of the Perl modules from CPAN. There are many mirrors of this site. The main site's URL is http://cpan.org/.

You may want to search the Perl modules database by using http://search.cpan.org/.

Either use the search form, or type in the name of the package the module is distributed in. For example if you are looking for Apache::DumpHeaders, you can type: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Apache-DumpHeaders .

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Get the latest Apache webserver and documentation from http://www.apache.org . Try the direct download link http://www.apache.org/dist/ .

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Get the latest mod_perl sources and documentation from http://perl.apache.org . Try the direct download link http://perl.apache.org/dist/ .

Source/Binary Distributions: http://perl.apache.org/distributions.html

Every Apache project rolls a new tar.gz snapshot of the latest CVS version every 6 hours. You can grab the latest mod_perl CVS snapshot from http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/, all the mod_perl related projects are available from http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs.

RPM: http://perl.apache.org/rpm/

Debian users will find Perl, Apache and mod_perl are available as .deb files on official image CDs or from the Debian web site http://www.debian.org . The Debian distribution also contains many additional Perl and Apache libraries and modules.

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http://squid.nlanr.net/

Squid Linux 2.x Redhat RPMs : http://home.earthlink.net/~intrep/linux/

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http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

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http://www.fremen.org/apache/mod_throttle_access.html

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Ask Bjoern Hansen has written the mod_proxy_add_forward.c module for Apache that sets the X-Forwarded-For field when doing a ProxyPass, similar to what Squid does. His module is available from one of these URLs: http://modules.apache.org/search?id=124, http://develooper.com/code/mpaf/mod_proxy_add_forward.c or http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/ABH/mod_proxy_add_forward.c, complete with instructions on how to compile it and whatnot.

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http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html

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http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/

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ApacheBench comes with the Apache distribution.

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should be available from the mod_backhand CVS tree: http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/

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http://www.backhand.org/mod_backhand/

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mod_redundancy is a module that works with Apache webserver. It creates a Master/Slave Relationship between two physical webservers. The Slave takes over the IP-Address(es) and the Webservice(s) in case of a failure of the Master. One of the clues of this solution is, that the Redundancy/Failover-Configuration is made inside the Apache-Configfile.

The product is neither OSS, nor free :(

The homepage of mod_redundancy is http://www.ask-the-guru.com .

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You will find the definitive guide to load balancing techniques at the High-Availability Linux Project site -- http://www.henge.com/~alanr/ha/

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http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/ http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/bof.talk/ http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html

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http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/linux-ip-nat/diplom/node4.html#SECTION00043100000000000000

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http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

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(with Mohit Aron and Willy Zwaenepoel.) In Proceedings of the USENIX 1999 Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA, June 1999. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~druschel/usenix99lard.ps.gz http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix99/full_papers/aron/aron_html/index.html

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The latest ip filter includes some simple load balancing code, that allows a round-robin distribution onto several machines via ipnat. That may be a simple solution for a few specific load problem. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ipf3.4beta3.tgz

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The package name is libapreq.

Get it from your favorite CPAN mirror at $CPAN/authors/id/DOUGM/ or from http://perl.apache.org/dist/.

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Low-Cost Unix Database Differences http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/dbs.html

My collection of various links to databases implementations http://stason.org/TULARC/webmaster/db.html

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LibGTop is a library that fetches system related information such as CPU Load, Memory Usage and information about running processes. The module GTop provides a Perl interface to this library.

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Your corrections of the technical and grammatical errors are very welcome. You are encouraged to help me improve this guide. If you have something to contribute please send it directly to me.

The Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C book can be purchased online from O'Reilly and Amazon.com.

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Written by Stas Bekman. Last Modified at 02/08/2001

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