Araneida behind Apache vs mod

From: Sylvain
Subject: Araneida behind Apache vs mod_lisp
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:05:54 +0000
Message-ID: <ONydnRY899YuwiDeRVn-ig@speakeasy.net>

so I was reading the various posts about Araneida,
downloaded it but just had time for a very superficial
look;  one thing I wonder though -- bear with me,
I am a newbie :-):  it seems that Araneida is typically
used behind Apache which acts as a proxy server;  now,
what does it buy me so to speak,  as compared to using
mod_lisp?

--Sylvain

Re: Araneida behind Apache vs mod_lisp Ulrich Hobelmann
Re: Araneida behind Apache vs mod_lisp Thomas F. Burdick

From: Ulrich Hobelmann
Subject: Re: Araneida behind Apache vs mod_lisp
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:17:20 +0000
Message-ID: <42565hF1grietU1@individual.net>

Sylvain wrote:
> so I was reading the various posts about Araneida,
> downloaded it but just had time for a very superficial
> look;  one thing I wonder though -- bear with me,
> I am a newbie :-):  it seems that Araneida is typically
> used behind Apache which acts as a proxy server;  now,
> what does it buy me so to speak,  as compared to using
> mod_lisp?

I'd say you don't need to install mod_lisp; you can simply ask the site 
admin to configure mod_proxy to route to you running araneida (which 
runs as a normal user app on Unix).

Getting someone to install something that needs to run with full Apache 
privileges (because it's a full module) might be harder.

-- 
the bottom line is that a JavaSchool that won't teach C and won't teach
Scheme is not really teaching computer science, either.  --  Joel Spolsky

From: Thomas F. Burdick
Subject: Re: Araneida behind Apache vs mod_lisp
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:57:38 +0000
Message-ID: <xcvzmm9lgb1.fsf@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>

Sylvain <····@att.net> writes:

> so I was reading the various posts about Araneida,
> downloaded it but just had time for a very superficial
> look;  one thing I wonder though -- bear with me,
> I am a newbie :-):  it seems that Araneida is typically
> used behind Apache which acts as a proxy server;  now,
> what does it buy me so to speak,  as compared to using
> mod_lisp?

Araneida can be used behind Apache, but it doesn't have to be.  This
means you don't necessarily have to screw around with configuring
Apache.  Also, because it's a proper server in itself, you can sit it
behind any reverse-proxy if you want to deploy that way.  This
includes Pound [*] and Squid [**], which are quite a bit smaller and
easier to configure, install, and maintain.  If you need other
features of Apache, by all means, use it -- but if you just need a
reverse proxy, I'm glad to have smaller alternatives.

[*] A simple reverse-proxy and https front-end: http://www.apsis.ch/pound/

[**] More complex than Pound, it also handles ftp, and does cacheing.
     http://www.squid-cache.org/

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