[mb-devel] Can musicbrainz support lighttpd to replace apache ?

[Ben]

I'm sure if you were to write that little more code and those general  
functions, your patches would be appreciated.

On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:04 PM, bowen wrote:

> Why do you design mb_server so coherent to some specific product. You
> just write a little more code, or just use some general function
> without product internal api. It is very hard to migrate and upgrade
> for most of us. Sorry, above is some complaint.
>
> I know mb_server is depends on mod_perl, apache, postgresql tightly.
> Do you plan to cope with this problem?
>
>
> 2006/10/3, Matthias Friedrich <matt at mafr.de>:
>> On Sunday, 2006-10-01, linuzboy wrote:
>> > I have installed all the requirement software and modules, without
>> > apache related. The rest is apache specific feature, and apache
>> > vh_conf.
>>
>> > What should I do now, I am not familiar with perl ?  And I had  
>> setup
>> > the database with mysql.
>>
>> Setting up mb_server using Apache and PostgreSQL is a big task  
>> already.
>> I doubt that you will get it working on a different web server and  
>> DB in
>> a reasonable amount of time.
>>
>> Most probably, you won't even be able to import the database snapshot
>> because of minor incompatibilities in the data format (timestamps
>> are a problem, IIRC). More than that, mb_server depends on apache
>> functionality to store sessions, for example, so you won't be able to
>> use lighttp as a drop-in replacement.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>        Matthias
>>
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