[ic] Time for new hardware?

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 16:49:41 UTC 2016


>>>>> We are using Nginx + FastCGI to connect to Interchange in most of our
>>>>> installations now.
>>
>>
>> Should I be able to have URLs like example.com/page.html without any
>> folders between the domain and page?
>
>
> You can do that now, using classic CGI vlink and mod_rewrite.


Or via Interchange::Link which is how I do it currently.


> I don't recommend it, though, because it means *every* bot and 404 request
> goes through Interchange rather than being served statically by Apache,
> greatly increasing the load on Interchange and your server.


With nginx you can easily catch requests that don't match your URL
scheme and 'return 404;' without ever handing off to
apache/interchange.

- Grant



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