Rich Bowen (May 19, 2010 at 10:15)
Talk at TEK·X (English - US)
While managing your Apache server may not be your primary job responsibility, you need to know your way around your Apache server in order to do your job. In this talk, you'll learn how to do, or do better, a variety of things that come up every day in the life of an Apache server administrator, as well as learning about some of the less well-know features that maybe you weren't aware of at all.
Rich is the author of 'Apache Cookbook', from O'Reilly, and spends an inordinate amount of time answering Apache questions on IRC.
Quicklink: http://joind.in/1578
Slides: Apache Cookbook
May 19, 2010, 16:30 by frozen-solid
A LOT of information covered in such a short amount of time. Tons of great ideas for fixing issues, and doing it right. I loved how one of his examples had showed that the better way to do it was to use PHP, with minor bits of Apache magic, rather than using some big complicated mod_rewrite.
May 19, 2010, 16:31 by jeremykendall
Great talk, tons of information, almost to the point of information overload. Awesome slides accompany the talk, however, making things a lot easier to follow. Thanks for posting the slides beforehand. Great job!
May 19, 2010, 17:12 by bradley.holt
Lots of material that will be useful with Apache. The "recipe" style worked quite well as each was relatively easy to digest.
May 19, 2010, 18:39 by dragond81
Great talk. Lots of useful info. Will definitely be looking over the slides. Would prefer if the slides were also available in non Mac only format for download (I believe keynote can include PDF version?).
May 20, 2010, 21:45 by stevetoldme
Good talk, lots of good "recipes" Thank goodness we can download the slides, I cant write that fast. Also, I like the sense of humor.
May 20, 2010, 22:21 by caseyamcl
Useful things I learned: SNI, mod_status (wish it were more intuitive), mod_security (Win!), and mod_rate_limit (shared webhost win).
I was expecting something more narrative, but this smörgåsbord of topics left me with a lot to explore.
May 19, 2010, 16:13 by hermanradtke
I typically expect to learn 1-2 things per session. This talk had so many good recipes and topics that I lost count of all the cool things I wrote down to later implement.