Is there a clear winner in the filesystem area? As in, does some filesystem perform significantly better in a virtualized environment such as VMWare or VirtualBox? Is there more or less disk space wasted in the VMDK/VDI formats with some filesystems, does the layout of a particular filesystem stand out when running in a virtual environment? Is journalling worth it for non-critical operations? Or are they all the same?
I'm trying to set up Apache, Django and mod_xsendfile to allow me to control access to certain files using Django authentication while still using Apache to send the actual file data.
I have a problem with this configuration:
# Some files must be publicly available without the Django auth check.
# When I comment this out, public media is not accessible but the WSGI script for
# /media/attachment DOES get called.
# So I think I need to somehow exclude /media/attachment from the effect of this Alias
Alias /media/ /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/project/httpdocs/media/
# This <Location> block disables everything (Forbidden) regardless of the WSGI stuff
#
#<Location /media/attachments>
# Deny from all
#</Location>
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/vhosts/cdomain.com/subdomains/project/httpdocs/web/apache/django.wsgi
WSGIScriptAlias /media/attachments /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/project/httpdocs/web/apache/django.wsgi
XSendFile On
How can I tell Apache to route requests to /media/attachments through the WSGI scripts and serve the rest of /media directly?
I would like to use Python 2.4 features in my Django apps running on CentOS 4.7. The default version of Python is 2.3 and I think it would be best not to try replace it. Is there a way to install a newer version of Python alongside and somehow tell Apache to use that for mod_python?
Is there a web statistics service or software that allows inserting custom events into the graphs for quick reference?
I would like to be able to insert an event like "on March 3rd, we changed the color of the background" and see directly in the graph that right after we did this, site visits went up 10%. I know it can be done with external tools, perhaps even Excel, but I'd love to have this right inside the web stats interface.
To see what I'm talking about - Google does this with Google Finance. This is exactly what I'm talking about. A graph on the left, news on the right with links into the graph. So the graph would be my web statistics and the news would be whatever I put there, likely changes I did to the website in question.