Popular movies almost always get a sequel. The reason is clear, less creativity is needed to work out a story, and a high revenue is almost guaranteed. Did you know that there was a Grease 2? And there were several follow ups for Saturday Night Fever? I actually watched these movies (Grease 2 on New Year's Eve, what were they thinking), and I can tell you that it's not worth your time.
Fast forward to 2008. Your humble pimbert decides to instell Django on his webserver, only to find out that it actually expects Apache2. Debian's apt-get failed to warn me for this, though. I assumed that Apache2 might do the same things as Apache1, AND support Django, so why not install it?
Because it will kill you. Debian refuses to create a decent default configuration for mod_perl2 in apache2, because Perl wizards can figure that out for themselves. After reading about a 100 sites on various perl.conf values and parseheader parameters, Apache kept refusing to parse the virtual server connected to www.foo.com, no matter if a special virtualserver was defined for that or not. Anything else, say bla.foo.com worked fine, if defined as a virtualserver or if just caught by 000-default. Reinstalling apache1 only partly reduced the disaster.
Time for the automated backups of my Virtual Private Server to come to the rescue, reloading the image of the previous day and getting back to nicer things in life.
The following is to be read in the usual Hollywood-trailer voice: Apache2, just like the previous version, except crappier. A total waste of your time. You will hate yourself for even thinking about it. Soon, in a theater near you.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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